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Fig. 1 · Ab11 · moderate

ukulele chord

A♭11

A♭1C3E♭5G♭♭7B♭9D♭11

Six notes in theory; in practice the third is usually dropped, because the eleventh sits a half step above it.

Written the other way round it is G♯11 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

A♭11 is A♭, C, E♭, G♭, B♭ and D♭ — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 11 counted from A♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 6, the 3, 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 1121: 2 fingers, one of them barring the 1st fret, held at the 1st 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.

It leaves out the 3 and 5. 4 strings cannot carry 6 notes, and the 3 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 3 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

4
first inversion

A♭11/C

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8
second inversion

A♭11/E♭

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4
third inversion

A♭11/G♭

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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.

A♭ in other shapes

A♭add9added ninthA♭9dominant ninthA♭maj9major ninthA♭majorA♭mminorA♭dimdiminished

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