GmMaj7 guitar chord
The standard grips this chord is usually shown with.
- Tap a note to hear it
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- Fingers, notes or intervals
- Play the chord
About GmMaj7 — root position
GmMaj7 is G, Bb, D and F# — Gm with the major seventh added on top.
It sounds tense and wrong-footed. A minor triad carrying a major seventh: the semitone under the root over a minor chord is the first bar of a line cliché.
Minor tonic — the tonic of the melodic minor.
GmMaj7 notes and formula
| G | Bb | D | F# |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ♭3 | 5 | 7 |
Also written GmM7, Gm(maj7), G-Δ7 or GminMaj7. The same chord either way; which spelling you meet depends on who wrote the chart.
How to play GmMaj7
GmMaj7 in root position puts G in the bass, which is the chord as it is spelled: the note it is named after underneath everything else.
6 of GmMaj7’s 7 common shapes do this:310032xx5332354333xx5776x-10-8-7-7-xx-10-12-11-11-10
Play GmMaj7 as a shell — root, third and seventh — and the spare string takes the 9 (A), the 11 (C) or the 13 (E).
All 7 common shapes as fret numbers, lowest string first. Hover or tap one to see it drawn.
- 310032, open position, G, root position, top note F#, 2 open strings
- xx5332, 2nd fret, G, root position, top note F#, all fretted
- 354333, 3rd fret, G, root position, top note G, barred
- xx5776, 5th fret, G, root position, top note Bb, all fretted
- x-10-8-7-7-x, 7th fret, G, root position, top note F#, all fretted
- x-10-12-11-11-10, 10th fret, G, root position, top note D, all fretted
- x-13-12-12-15-14, 12th fret, Bb, 1st inversion, top note F#, all fretted
How to use GmMaj7
How you get to it. The turn that lands on GmMaj7 is Am7♭5 to D7♭9: the ii and the V of G minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.
What to play over GmMaj7
Every note of GmMaj7 is in G harmonic minor and G melodic minor.
Chords near GmMaj7
Change one note of GmMaj7 and you have Gm (drop the major seventh), Gmaj7 (the minor third becomes the major third), Gm6 (the major seventh becomes the sixth), Gm7 (the major seventh becomes the flat seventh), GmMaj7b5 (the fifth becomes the flat fifth) or GmMaj9 (add the ninth).
GmMaj7 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.