BbDbGBb
Fig. 1 · Bbm6 · moderate

ukulele chord

B♭m6

B♭1D♭♭3F5G6

A minor triad with a major sixth added, which is why it is not simply a minor chord with a flat seventh.

Written the other way round it is A♯m6 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

3131

moderate · no 5

3
Fig. 3

3534

moderate · barre

Fig. 4

313x

easy · no 5

Fig. 5

3134

hard · no 5

9
Fig. 6

xa9a

easy · no 5

What is true of it

B♭m6 is B♭, D♭, F and G — 1, b3, 5 and 6 counted from B♭.

These are also the notes of Gm7♭5/B♭. 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 3131: 4 fingers, 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.

1 of the 5 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.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

B♭m6/D♭

x131

9
second inversion

B♭m6/F

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third inversion

B♭m6/G

0111

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.

B♭ in other shapes

B♭6major sixthB♭majorB♭mminorB♭dimdiminished

Cm6C♯m6D♭m6Dm6D♯m6E♭m6Em6Fm6all 374