Abm69 guitar chord
The standard grips this chord is usually shown with.
- Tap a note to hear it
- Arrows change position
- Fingers, notes or intervals
- Play the chord
About Abm69 — 1st inversion
Abm69 is Ab, Cb, Eb, F and Bb — Abm6 with the ninth added as well.
It sounds cool and entirely at rest. No seventh, so nothing leans: a common last chord of a minor tune.
Minor tonic — nothing in it is pulling.
Abm69 notes and formula
| Ab | Cb | Eb | F | Bb |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ♭3 | 5 | 6 | 9 |
Also written Abm6/9, Abmin6/9 or Ab-6/9. The same chord either way; which spelling you meet depends on who wrote the chart.
How to play Abm69
Abm69 in 1st inversion puts Cb in the bass instead of Ab, the 3rd of the chord. The notes are the same; what changes is what the bass line does, which is most of why you would reach for it — it lets the lowest voice move by step where the root would have jumped.
2 of Abm69’s 8 common shapes do this:x23344766866
Play Abm69 as a shell — root, third and seventh — and the spare string takes the 11 (Db).
All 8 common shapes as fret numbers, lowest string first. Hover or tap one to see it drawn.
- 4233xx, 2nd fret, Ab, root position, top note Bb, all fretted
- x23344, 2nd fret, Cb, 1st inversion, top note Ab, all fretted
- 4x3446, 3rd fret, Ab, root position, top note Bb, barred
- 4x6466, 4th fret, Ab, root position, top note Bb, barred
- xx6466, 4th fret, Ab, root position, top note Bb, barred
- x66466, 4th fret, Eb, 2nd inversion, top note Bb, barred
- 766866, 6th fret, Cb, 1st inversion, top note Bb, barred
- x-11-9-10-11-x, 9th fret, Ab, root position, top note Bb, all fretted
How to use Abm69
How you get to it. The turn that lands on Abm69 is Bbm7♭5 to Eb7♭9: the ii and the V of Ab minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.
In which keys. Every note of Abm69 belongs to Eb minor (the iv, the subdominant) and F# major (the ii, the supertonic).
What to play over Abm69
Every note of Abm69 is in Ab dorian and Ab melodic minor.
Chords near Abm69
Change one note of Abm69 and you have Abm6 (drop the ninth), Abm9 (the sixth becomes the flat seventh), AbmMaj9 (the sixth becomes the major seventh), Abmadd9 (drop the sixth) or Ab69 (the minor third becomes the major third).
Abm69 is a minor chord — root, minor third, fifth. Minor chords on every root.
The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.