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Fig. 1 · Gb9 · hard

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G♭9

G♭1B♭3D♭5F♭♭7A♭9

A dominant seventh carrying a ninth on top.

Written the other way round it is F♯9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

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

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

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is bacb: 4 fingers, held at the 10th 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.

It leaves out the 5. 4 strings cannot carry 5 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 3 — 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

3
first inversion

G♭9/B♭

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6
second inversion

G♭9/D♭

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third inversion

G♭9/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♭maj9major ninthG♭m9minor ninthG♭majorG♭mminorG♭dimdiminished

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