AbmMaj11 guitar chord

2nd inversion · Eb in the bass
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About AbmMaj11inversions voicings

AbmMaj11 is Ab, Cb, Eb, G, Bb and Db with the eleventh added on top.

It sounds dense and unresolved. The melodic minor tonic with most of the scale showing — more a texture than a chord to comp on.

Minor tonic — the melodic minor as far up as a guitar carries it.

Also written AbmM11 or Abm(maj11).

AbmMaj11 inversions guitar chord diagram: Ab, Cb, Eb, G, Bb, Db, played x66687
AbmMaj11 inversions, x66687 — the shape above, as a picture.

What an inversion is

How to use AbmMaj11

How you get to it. The turn that lands on AbmMaj11 is to : the ii and the V of Ab minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.

Hear it land:

What to play over AbmMaj11

Every note of AbmMaj11 is in Ab harmonic minor and Ab melodic minor.

Each of those is a page: the scale across the neck, and the chords it harmonises into — which is where AbmMaj11 sits in it. Every scale.

Chords near AbmMaj11

Change one note of AbmMaj11 and you have (the minor third becomes the major third), (the major seventh becomes the flat seventh) or (drop the eleventh).

AbmMaj11 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.

Midi Settings

7.5
Play Style
One pass of the pick from the lowest string up, everything left ringing.
Instrument
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Style

Shows each chord the way this style would voice it, and marks which of its alternatives belong to the idiom.

Layout

Left Handed Mode