Ab chord on guitar
Ab major
Ab is a major chord with three notes: Ab, C and Eb. 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
- Pinky on the D 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
- Fourindex, middle, ring and pinky
- Strings played
- All six
- Open strings
- Noneevery played string is fretted
- Lowest note
- Ab2the root, on the low E string
- Frets
- 4 6 6 5 4 4low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Ab
- Abroot
- Cmajor third
- Ebperfect fifth
A major chord is three notes: the root, a major third and a perfect fifth. C is the major third, four frets above the root. Eb is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: Ab4root
- B string: Eb4perfect fifth
- G string: C4major third
- D string: Ab3root
- A string: Eb3perfect fifth
- low E string: Ab2root
Every note of Ab is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- Barre at fret 11x 11 13 13 13 11Root on the A string.
Related chords
Other Ab chords
Relative minor
The relative minor of Ab is Fm. The Ab major scale uses the same seven notes as the F natural minor scale.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Ab 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.