5×FAEb
Fig. 1 · F7 · moderate

ukulele chord

F7

F1A3C5E♭♭7

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

on guitaron pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

5
Fig. 2

x556

moderate · barre · no 5

10
Fig. 3

acbc

hard

9
Fig. 4

a9bx

easy · no 5

8
Fig. 5

a9b8

hard · no 5

9
Fig. 6

a9bc

hard · no 5

What is true of it

F7 is F, A, C and E♭ — 1, 3, 5 and b7 counted from F.

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x556: 2 fingers, one of them barring the 5th fret, held at the 5th 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.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

F7/A

2310

5
second inversion

F7/C

5556

third inversion

F7/E♭

x310

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.

F in other shapes

Fmaj7major seventhFm7minor seventhFm(maj7)minor major seventhFmajorFmminorFdimdiminished

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