Abm7 chord on guitar
Ab minor 7th
Abm7 is a minor 7th chord with four notes: Ab, Cb, 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
- 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
- Twoindex 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 4 4 4low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Abm7
- Abroot
- Cbminor third
- Ebperfect fifth
- Gbminor seventh
A minor 7th chord is a minor chord with a minor seventh added on top. Cb is the minor third, three frets above the root. Eb is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root. Gb is the minor seventh, ten 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: Gb3minor seventh
- A string: Eb3perfect fifth
- low E string: Ab2root
Every note of Abm7 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- Barre at fret 11x 11 13 11 12 11Root on the A string.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Abm7 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.