G♯m7

G♯1B♭3D♯5F♯♭7

Minor triad with a minor seventh. The same four notes as a major sixth chord a third above.

Written the other way round it is A♭m7 — 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

1322

moderate

Fig. 3

x879

easy · no 5

What is true of it

G♯m7 is G♯, B, D♯ and F♯ — 1, b3, 5 and b7 counted from G♯.

These are also the notes of B6/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 2 fingerings below is 1322: 4 fingers, held at the 1st 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

Fig. 4 — 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♯m7/B

4646

second inversion

G♯m7/D♯

8879

third inversion

G♯m7/F♯

bbbb

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 seventh G♯maj7major seventh G♯m(maj7)minor major seventh G♯major G♯mminor G♯dimdiminished

Cm7 C♯m7 D♭m7 Dm7 D♯m7 E♭m7 Em7 Fm7 all 374