D♭m(maj7)

D♭1F♭♭3A♭5C7

Minor triad, major seventh — the tonic chord of harmonic minor.

Written the other way round it is C♯m(maj7) — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

6004

easy · no 5

Fig. 3

6003

easy · no 5

Fig. 4

x103

open · no 5

Fig. 5

6047

easy

Fig. 6

6403

easy · no 5

What is true of it

D♭m(maj7) is D♭, F♭, A♭ and C — 1, b3, 5 and 7 counted from D♭.

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 6004: 2 fingers, held at the 4th fret.

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

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

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

D♭m(maj7)/F♭

9c9b

second inversion

D♭m(maj7)/A♭

1004

third inversion

D♭m(maj7)/C

x004

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.

D♭ in other shapes

D♭7dominant seventh D♭maj7major seventh D♭m7minor seventh D♭major D♭mminor D♭dimdiminished

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