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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

ukulele chord

G♭13

G♭1B♭3D♭5F♭♭7A♭9E♭13

Seven notes in theory and four or five in anyone’s hands: root, third, seventh and thirteenth carry it.

Written the other way round it is F♯13 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

G♭13 is G♭, B♭, D♭, F♭, A♭ and E♭ — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 13 counted from G♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 6, the 5, 9 and 1 go first, in that order.

No fingering of G♭13 fits a hand on the ukulele: inside four frets, with the strings that sound next to each other and the root underneath, there is nothing to hold.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 2 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

G♭13/B♭

3304

4
second inversion

G♭13/D♭

6466

4
third inversion

G♭13/F♭

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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.

G♭ in other shapes

G♭add9added ninthG♭9dominant ninthG♭maj9major ninthG♭majorG♭mminorG♭dimdiminished

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