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Fig. 1 · G#m · moderate

guitar chord

G♯m

G♯1B♭3D♯5

The major triad with its third lowered by a half step.

Written the other way round it is A♭m — 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

466444

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

42110x

hard

Fig. 4

42140x

hard

Fig. 5

46640x

moderate · barre

Fig. 6

466407

hard · barre

What is true of it

G♯m is G♯, B and D♯ — 1, b3 and 5 counted from G♯.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 3, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 466444: 3 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.

3 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♯m/B

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second inversion

G♯m/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♯majorG♯dimdiminishedG♯augaugmentedG♯5power chordG♯sus2suspended secondG♯sus4suspended fourth

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