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Fig. 1 · Ab7 · open

ukulele chord

A♭7

A♭1C3E♭5G♭♭7

Major triad, minor seventh. The chord that wants to resolve a fourth up.

Written the other way round it is G♯7 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

102x

open · no 5

Fig. 3

1023

open · no 5

Fig. 4

1323

moderate

8
Fig. 5

x889

moderate · barre · no 5

What is true of it

A♭7 is A♭, C, E♭ and G♭ — 1, 3, 5 and b7 counted from A♭.

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

The easiest of the 4 fingerings below is 102x: 2 fingers, held at the 1st fret.

2 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.

1 of the 4 need a barre.

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

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 6 — 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♭7/C

5646

8
second inversion

A♭7/E♭

8889

11
third inversion

A♭7/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♭maj7major seventhA♭m7minor seventhA♭m(maj7)minor major seventhA♭majorA♭mminorA♭dimdiminished

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