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Fig. 1 · Gbm7 · moderate

guitar chord

G♭m7

G♭1B♭♭♭3D♭5F♭♭7

Minor triad with a minor seventh. The same four notes as a major sixth chord a third above.

Written the other way round it is F♯m7 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

202220

moderate

Fig. 3

204220

moderate

Fig. 4

242220

moderate · barre

Fig. 5

20222x

moderate

2
Fig. 6

242222

moderate · barre

What is true of it

G♭m7 is G♭, B♭♭, D♭ and F♭ — 1, b3, 5 and b7 counted from G♭.

B♭♭ is a double flat, and it has to be: every letter from G♭ upwards is used once, so the b3 cannot be written any other way.

These are also the notes of A6/G♭. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 202220: 4 fingers, 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.

2 of the 5 need a barre.

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♭m7/B♭♭

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second inversion

G♭m7/D♭

x44220

third inversion

G♭m7/F♭

004220

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♭7dominant seventhG♭maj7major seventhG♭m(maj7)minor major seventhG♭majorG♭mminorG♭dimdiminished

Cm7C♯m7D♭m7Dm7D♯m7E♭m7Em7Fm7all 374