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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

ukulele chord

G♭maj9

G♭1B♭3D♭5F7A♭9

A major seventh with a ninth on top.

Written the other way round it is F♯maj9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

G♭maj9 is G♭, B♭, D♭, F and A♭ — 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 counted from G♭.

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

No fingering of G♭maj9 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

3
first inversion

G♭maj9/B♭

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6
second inversion

G♭maj9/D♭

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9
third inversion

G♭maj9/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♭m9minor ninthG♭majorG♭mminorG♭dimdiminished

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