G♭aug

G♭1B♭3D♯5

Two major thirds stacked. Symmetrical: every note can be heard as the root.

Written the other way round it is F♯aug — 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

21033x

moderate

Fig. 3

2103xx

open

Fig. 4

25033x

hard

Fig. 5

2503xx

easy

Fig. 6

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hard

What is true of it

G♭aug is G♭, B♭ and D — 1, 3 and #5 counted from G♭.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 21033x: 4 fingers, held at the 1st fret.

1 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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♭aug/B♭

x10332

second inversion

G♭aug/D

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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♭major G♭mminor G♭dimdiminished G♭5power chord G♭sus2suspended second G♭sus4suspended fourth

Caug C♯aug D♭aug Daug D♯aug E♭aug Eaug Faug all 374