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Fig. 1 · Gb13 · hard

guitar chord

G♭13

G♭1B♭3D♭5F♭♭7A♭9E♭13

Seven notes in theory and four or five in anyone’s hands: root, third, seventh and thirteenth carry it.

Written the other way round it is F♯13 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

242340

hard · barre · no 9

Fig. 3

xx4340

easy · no 5, 9

2
Fig. 4

242342

hard · barre · no 9

2
Fig. 5

24234x

hard · barre · no 9

9
Fig. 6

x9b9bb

hard · barre · no 9

What is true of it

G♭13 is G♭, B♭, D♭, F♭, A♭ and E♭ — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 13 counted from G♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 6, the 5, 9 and 1 go first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 242340: 4 fingers, one of them barring the 2nd fret, held at the 2nd 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.

4 of the 5 need a barre.

It leaves out the 9. 6 strings cannot carry 6 notes, and the 9 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

G♭13/B♭

x11120

second inversion

G♭13/D♭

x44340

third inversion

G♭13/F♭

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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.

G♭ in other shapes

G♭add9added ninthG♭9dominant ninthG♭maj9major ninthG♭majorG♭mminorG♭dimdiminished

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