AbmMaj9 guitar chord
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About AbmMaj9 — 3rd inversion
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.
What 3rd inversion means
AbmMaj9 in 3rd inversion puts G in the bass instead of Ab, the 7th 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.
One of AbmMaj9’s 8 shapes does this:xx5446
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
- +DbFb
Contains AbmMaj9 and adds eleventh and flat thirteenth.
- +DbF
Contains AbmMaj9 and adds eleventh and thirteenth.
Chords near AbmMaj9
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