Gmaj7#5 guitar chord
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About Gmaj7#5 — open string voicings
Gmaj7#5 is G, B, D# and F#. It keeps the major 3rd and 7th of , but raises the 5th one fret to the .
The sharp 5th is the note to follow. It can rise one more fret to the 6th or fall back to the natural 5th as the harmony changes.
Keep it audible. Without the sharp 5th, the remaining notes only spell .
Also written GM7#5, GΔ7#5, G+M7 or Gmaj7(#5).
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 Gmaj7#5
How you get to it. The turn that lands on Gmaj7#5 is to — the ii and the V of G — and shares its third and seventh with , so the hand barely moves between them.
Hear it land:→→
What to play over Gmaj7#5
Useful scales
- +AC#E
Contains Gmaj7#5 and adds ninth, flat fifth and thirteenth.
Chords near Gmaj7#5
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The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.