GmMaj11 guitar chord

2nd inversion · D in the bass
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About GmMaj11inversions voicings

GmMaj11 is G, Bb, D, F#, A and C 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 GmM11 or Gm(maj11).

GmMaj11 inversions guitar chord diagram: G, Bb, D, F#, A, C, played x55576
GmMaj11 inversions, x55576 — the shape above, as a picture.

What an inversion is

How to use GmMaj11

How you get to it. The turn that lands on GmMaj11 is to : the ii and the V of G minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.

Hear it land:

What to play over GmMaj11

Every note of GmMaj11 is in G harmonic minor and G melodic minor.

Each of those is a page: the scale across the neck, and the chords it harmonises into — which is where GmMaj11 sits in it. Every scale.

Chords near GmMaj11

Change one note of GmMaj11 and you have (the minor third becomes the major third), (the major seventh becomes the flat seventh) or (drop the eleventh).

GmMaj11 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