G♭m

G♭1B♭♭♭3D♭5

The major triad with its third lowered by a half step.

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

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x654

easy

Fig. 3

b999

hard

Fig. 4

b99x

easy

Fig. 5

b99c

hard

What is true of it

G♭m is G♭, B♭♭ and D♭ — 1, b3 and 5 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.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 3, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 4 fingerings below is x654: 3 fingers, held at the 4th 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.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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♭m/B♭♭

2120

second inversion

G♭m/D♭

x120

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♭major G♭dimdiminished G♭augaugmented G♭5power chord G♭sus2suspended second G♭sus4suspended fourth

Cm C♯m D♭m Dm D♯m E♭m Em Fm all 374