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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

ukulele chord

A♭13

A♭1C3E♭5G♭♭7B♭9F13

Seven notes in theory and four or five in anyone’s hands: root, third, seventh and thirteenth carry it.

Written the other way round it is G♯13 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on guitaron pianothe scale

What is true of it

A♭13 is A♭, C, E♭, G♭, B♭ and F — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 13 counted from A♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 6, the 5, 9 and 1 go first, in that order.

No fingering of A♭13 fits a hand on the ukulele: inside four frets, with the strings that sound next to each other and the root underneath, there is nothing to hold.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 2 — 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

5
first inversion

A♭13/C

5668

6
second inversion

A♭13/E♭

8688

6
third inversion

A♭13/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

C13C♯13D♭13D13D♯13E♭13E13F13all 374