Fm(maj7)

F1A♭♭3C5E7

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

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

a887

hard

Fig. 3

accb

hard

Fig. 4

x547

easy · no 5

What is true of it

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

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

The easiest of the 3 fingerings below is a887: 4 fingers, held at the 7th 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.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 5 — 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

Fm(maj7)/A♭

1413

second inversion

Fm(maj7)/C

5547

third inversion

Fm(maj7)/E

9888

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

F7dominant seventh Fmaj7major seventh Fm7minor seventh Fmajor Fmminor Fdimdiminished

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