Ab7 chord on guitar
Ab dominant 7th
Ab7 is a dominant 7th chord with four notes: Ab, C, Eb and Gb. Learn it first as a barre at fret 4, your index finger flat across all six strings. Below: where each finger goes, which strings to skip and one more way to play it.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right. The chord detector is free and listens through your mic.
How to play it
- Index flat across fret 4, all six strings
- Middle on the G string, fret 5
- Ring on the A string, fret 6
The number in each note head is the finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Strings to skip
Nothing to skip: strum all six strings.
- Shape
- Barre at fret 4index finger across all six strings at fret 4
- Fingers
- Threeindex, middle and ring
- Strings played
- All six
- Open strings
- Noneevery played string is fretted
- Lowest note
- Ab2the root, on the low E string
- Frets
- 4 6 4 5 4 4low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Ab7
- Abroot
- Cmajor third
- Ebperfect fifth
- Gbminor seventh
A dominant 7th chord is a major chord with a minor seventh added on top. C is the major third, four frets above the root. Eb is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root. Gb is the minor seventh, ten frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: Ab4root
- B string: Eb4perfect fifth
- G string: C4major third
- D string: Gb3minor seventh
- A string: Eb3perfect fifth
- low E string: Ab2root
Every note of Ab7 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- Barre at fret 11x 11 13 11 13 11Root on the A string.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Ab7 and Lark names the chord it hears, with the notes in it. In the app, the chord book has all 111 chords, string by string.