Ab7#5♭9 — Ab dominant seventh sharp fifth flat ninth chord
An augmented dominant seventh chord with the ninth flattened: the augmented triad, the minor seventh and the flat ninth together.
- 1 = Ab
- 3 = C
- #5 = E
- b7 = Gb
- b9 = Bbb
- Symbol
- Ab7#5♭9
- Root
- Ab
- Quality
- Dominant seventh sharp fifth flat ninth
- Family
- altered
- Notes
- Ab C E Gb Bbb
- Degree formula
1 3 #5 b7 b9- Semitones from the root
0 1 4 8 10- Distinct pitch classes
- 5
- Interval structure
- Stacked from the root: 4 semitones, 4 semitones, 2 semitones, 3 semitones
- Notation
- Written 7#5♭9 or +7♭9. An altered dominant resolving to a minor chord whose root is a fifth below.
- Key
- Ab · Ab major / F minor key signature
Formula
The chord tones in order from the root, with the interval each one forms above it.
| Degree | Note | Semitones | Interval from the root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ab | 0 | Perfect unison |
| 3 | C | 4 | Major third |
| #5 | E | 8 | Minor sixth |
| b7 | Gb | 10 | Minor seventh |
| b9 | Bbb | 1 | Minor second |
Inversions
An inversion is the same set of notes with a different one in the bass. The last column gives the distance of each note above the bass note, in semitones.
| Inversion | Bass note | Degree in the bass | Notes above the bass | Semitones above the bass |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| root position | Ab | 1 | Ab – C – E – Gb – Bbb | 0 4 8 10 1 |
| first inversion | C | 3 | C – E – Gb – Bbb – Ab | 0 4 6 9 8 |
| second inversion | E | #5 | E – Gb – Bbb – Ab – C | 0 2 5 4 8 |
| third inversion | Gb | b7 | Gb – Bbb – Ab – C – E | 0 3 2 6 10 |
| fourth inversion | Bbb | b9 | Bbb – Ab – C – E – Gb | 0 11 3 7 9 |
Playable voicings
These shapes were found by searching the fretboard of a standard-tuned guitar (E A D G B E) rather than copied from a chord book. The search allows every string to sound or to be muted, rejects any shape with a muted string between two sounding strings, rejects any shape whose fretted notes span more than four frets (a five-fret window), requires every chord tone to be present, and then sorts what remains with root-position shapes first and the most compact, lowest shapes next. The shapes shown are the first six of that ordering; other orderings are possible at the same frets.
| # | Shape (low string first) | Notes | Degrees | Bass | Span (frets) | Sounding strings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4-3-4-5-5-5 | Ab C Gb C E A | 1 3 b7 3 #5 b9 | Ab | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | 4-3-2-2-1-2 | Ab C E A C Gb | 1 3 #5 b9 3 b7 | Ab | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 4-3-2-2-5-2 | Ab C E A E Gb | 1 3 #5 b9 #5 b7 | Ab | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 4-3-4-2-5-2 | Ab C Gb A E Gb | 1 3 b7 b9 #5 b7 | Ab | 3 | 6 |
| 5 | 4-3-4-2-5-4 | Ab C Gb A E Ab | 1 3 b7 b9 #5 1 | Ab | 3 | 6 |
| 6 | 4-3-4-2-5-5 | Ab C Gb A E A | 1 3 b7 b9 #5 b9 | Ab | 3 | 6 |
Shape numbers run from the lowest string to the highest, so the left-hand number is the sixth string (low E) in standard tuning. Multiple shapes are listed because a chord can be voiced several ways, and because a lower position is not always the better sounding one.
Related chords and scales
- KeyEverything in Ab
- ScaleAb diminished (half-whole)
- ChordAb7#5
- ChordAb
- ChordAb7
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