B♭m(maj7)

B♭1D♭♭3F5A7

Minor triad, major seventh — the tonic chord of harmonic minor.

Written the other way round it is A♯m(maj7) — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukulele on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

687666

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

60366x

hard

Fig. 4

6036xx

easy

Fig. 5

x1322x

hard

Fig. 6

x13221

hard · barre

What is true of it

B♭m(maj7) is B♭, D♭, F and A — 1, b3, 5 and 7 counted from B♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 687666: 3 fingers, one of them barring the 6th fret, held at the 6th fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

2 of the 5 need a barre.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are B♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

B♭m(maj7)/D♭

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second inversion

B♭m(maj7)/F

10332x

third inversion

B♭m(maj7)/A

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An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

B♭ in other shapes

B♭7dominant seventh B♭maj7major seventh B♭m7minor seventh B♭major B♭mminor B♭dimdiminished

Cm(maj7)C♯m(maj7)D♭m(maj7)Dm(maj7)D♯m(maj7)E♭m(maj7)Em(maj7)Fm(maj7)all 374