4G#D#F#BD#G#
Fig. 1 · G#m7 · 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 A♭m7 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

4
Fig. 2

464444

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

46440x

moderate · barre

Fig. 4

464407

moderate · barre

4
Fig. 5

46444x

moderate · barre

Fig. 6

42440x

hard · no 5

What is true of it

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

These are also the notes of B6/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 464444: 2 fingers, one of them barring the 4th fret, held at the 4th 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.

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

x21102

second inversion

G♯m7/D♯

xx1102

third inversion

G♯m7/F♯

22110x

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