F♯m(maj7)

F♯1A♭3C♯5E♯7

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

Written the other way round it is G♭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

b998

hard

Fig. 3

x658

easy · no 5

What is true of it

F♯m(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 2 fingerings below is b998: 4 fingers, held at the 8th 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. 4 — 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

F♯m(maj7)/A

2520

second inversion

F♯m(maj7)/C♯

6658

third inversion

F♯m(maj7)/E♯

x520

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

F♯7dominant seventh F♯maj7major seventh F♯m7minor seventh F♯major F♯mminor F♯dimdiminished

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