AbmMaj9 guitar chord
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About AbmMaj9 — open string voicings
AbmMaj9 is Ab, Cb, Eb, G and Bb. It keeps every note of and adds the .
AbmMaj9 and both contain the 9th. The difference is the 7th: AbmMaj9 uses , while uses the flat 7th.
Choose between them by the seventh under a held 9th. The minor 3rd remains in both chords.
Also written AbmM9, Abm(maj9) or Ab-Δ9.
What is an open-string voicing
An open string adds a note without a finger: a tension on top or a pedal below. These belong to their key and cannot be moved up the neck.
How to use AbmMaj9
How you get to it. The turn that lands on AbmMaj9 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 AbmMaj9
Useful scales
- +DbFb
Contains AbmMaj9 and adds eleventh and flat thirteenth.
- +DbF
Contains AbmMaj9 and adds eleventh and thirteenth.
Chords near AbmMaj9
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