Abm chord on guitar
Ab minor
Abm is a minor chord with three notes: Ab, Cb 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
- 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
- Threeindex, 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 4 4 4low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Abm
- Abroot
- Cbminor third
- Ebperfect fifth
A minor chord is the root, a minor third and a perfect fifth. The only difference from the major chord is the third, one fret lower. Cb is the minor third, three frets above the root. Eb is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
Cb sounds the same as B. It is spelled Cb because the third of Ab is always a kind of C.
String by string
- high e string: Ab4root
- B string: Eb4perfect fifth
- G string: Cb4minor third
- D string: Ab3root
- A string: Eb3perfect fifth
- low E string: Ab2root
Every note of Abm is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- Barre at fret 11x 11 13 13 12 11Root on the A string.
Related chords
Other Ab chords
Relative major
The relative major of Abm is Cb, in the chart as B (the same notes under another name). The Ab natural minor scale uses the same seven notes as the Cb major scale.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Abm 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.