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AbmMaj11 guitar chord

2nd inversion · Eb in the bass

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About AbmMaj11 — inversions voicings

AbmMaj11 is Ab, Cb, Eb, G, Bb and Db. It keeps every note of and adds the .

Keep the minor 3rd, major 7th, and 11th audible. On guitar, root and 5th can be left out to make room for those notes.

Also written AbmM11 or Abm(maj11).

AbmMaj11 inversions guitar chord diagram: Ab, Cb, Eb, G, Bb, Db, played x66687 — AbmMaj11 inversions guitar chord voicing: x-6-6-6-8-7.

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How to use AbmMaj11

How you get to it. The turn that lands on AbmMaj11 is to : the ii and the V of Ab minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.

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What to play over AbmMaj11

Useful scales

Ab harmonic minor scale
+Fb
Contains AbmMaj11 and adds flat thirteenth.
Ab melodic minor scale
+F
Contains AbmMaj11 and adds thirteenth.

Every scale

Chords near AbmMaj11

Remove a note

− Db
Remove the eleventh.
See AbmMaj9 chord →

Change one note

Cb → C
Raise the minor third to the major third.
See Abmaj11 chord →
G → Gb
Lower the major seventh to the flat seventh.
See Abm11 chord →

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.