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AbmMaj9 guitar chord

3rd inversion · G in the bass

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General3 Inversions4 Shell3 Drop 25 Drop 34 Rootless14 Open string1

InversionAll Root positionAb1 1st inversionCb1 3rd inversionG1

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About AbmMaj9

AbmMaj9 is Ab, Cb, Eb, G and Bb. It keeps every note of and adds the .

AbmMaj9 and both contain the 9th. The difference is the 7th: AbmMaj9 uses , while uses the flat 7th.

Choose between them by the seventh under a held 9th. The minor 3rd remains in both chords.

Also written AbmM9, Abm(maj9) or Ab-Δ9.

AbmMaj9 guitar chord diagram: Ab, Cb, Eb, G, Bb, played xx5446 — AbmMaj9 guitar chord voicing: x-x-5-4-4-6.

How to use AbmMaj9

How you get to it. The turn that lands on AbmMaj9 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.

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What to play over AbmMaj9

Useful scales

Ab harmonic minor scale
+DbFb
Contains AbmMaj9 and adds eleventh and flat thirteenth.
Ab melodic minor scale
+DbF
Contains AbmMaj9 and adds eleventh and thirteenth.

Every scale

Chords near AbmMaj9

Remove a note

− G
Remove the major seventh.
See Abmadd9 chord →

Change one note

3rd inversion
3rd inversion
Cb → C
Raise the minor third to the major third.
See Abmaj9 chord →
G → F
Replace the major seventh with the sixth.
See Abm69 chord →
G → Gb
Lower the major seventh to the flat seventh.
See Abm9 chord →

Add a note

+ Db
Add the eleventh.
See AbmMaj11 chord →

Minor chords on every root

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