5×GbBbbEb
Fig. 1 · Gbm6 · easy

ukulele chord

G♭m6

G♭1B♭♭♭3D♭5E♭6

A minor triad with a major sixth added, which is why it is not simply a minor chord with a flat seventh.

Written the other way round it is F♯m6 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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Every fingering that fits a hand

5
Fig. 2

x656

easy · no 5

9
Fig. 3

b9b9

hard · no 5

9
Fig. 4

b9bx

easy · no 5

9
Fig. 5

b9bc

hard · no 5

What is true of it

G♭m6 is G♭, B♭♭, D♭ and E♭ — 1, b3, 5 and 6 counted from G♭.

B♭♭ is a double flat, and it has to be: every letter from G♭ upwards is used once, so the b3 cannot be written any other way.

These are also the notes of E♭m7♭5/G♭ and D♯m7♭5/G♭. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

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

The easiest of the 4 fingerings below is x656: 3 fingers, held at the 5th 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 4 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 6 — 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♭m6/B♭♭

2320

5
second inversion

G♭m6/D♭

6656

third inversion

G♭m6/E♭

x320

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♭6major sixthG♭majorG♭mminorG♭dimdiminished

Cm6C♯m6D♭m6Dm6D♯m6E♭m6Em6Fm6all 374