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Fig. 1 · Gbdim7 · moderate

ukulele chord

G♭dim7

G♭1B♭♭♭3D♭♭♭5F♭♭♭♭7

Three minor thirds stacked. The seventh is doubly diminished, which is why it is written with a double flat.

Written the other way round it is F♯dim7 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

G♭dim7 is G♭, B♭♭, D♭♭ and F♭♭ — 1, b3, b5 and bb7 counted from G♭.

B♭♭, D♭♭ and F♭♭ are double flats, and they have to be: every letter from G♭ upwards is used once, so the b3 cannot be written any other way.

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is bcbc: 3 fingers, one of them barring the 11th fret, held at the 11th 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

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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

2
first inversion

G♭dim7/B♭♭

2323

second inversion

G♭dim7/D♭♭

5320

8
third inversion

G♭dim7/F♭♭

8989

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♭7dominant seventhG♭maj7major seventhG♭m7minor seventhG♭majorG♭mminorG♭dimdiminished

Cdim7C♯dim7D♭dim7Ddim7D♯dim7E♭dim7Edim7Fdim7all 374