G#5 — G# power chord chord
Root and fifth only. The third is left out, so the chord is neither major nor minor and the same shape works over either.
- 1 = G#
- 5 = D#
- Symbol
- G#5
- Root
- G#
- Quality
- Power chord
- Family
- triad
- Notes
- G# D#
- Degree formula
1 5- Semitones from the root
0 7- Distinct pitch classes
- 2
- Interval structure
- Stacked from the root: 7 semitones
- Notation
- Written 5. Two notes, usually doubled at the octave on the lowest strings, and the standard shape of distorted rock rhythm playing.
- Key
- G# · Ab major / F minor key signature
Fingering charts
The library holds 4 fingerings of this chord and all of them are shown, in the library’s own order. Several fingerings of one chord is normal: the same notes can be stopped at different positions and on different strings.
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 | G# | 0 | Perfect unison |
| 5 | D# | 7 | Perfect fifth |
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 | G# | 1 | G# – D# | 0 7 |
| first inversion | D# | 5 | D# – G# | 0 5 |
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 | 4-6-6-8-4-4 | G# D# G# D# D# G# | 1 5 1 5 5 1 | G# | 4 | 6 |
| 2 | 4-6-6-8-4-x | G# D# G# D# D# x | 1 5 1 5 5 x | G# | 4 | 5 |
| 3 | x-11-13-13-9-11 | x G# D# G# G# D# | x 1 5 1 1 5 | G# | 4 | 5 |
| 4 | x-x-6-8-4-4 | x x G# D# D# G# | x x 1 5 5 1 | G# | 4 | 4 |
| 5 | 4-6-6-8-x-x | G# D# G# D# x x | 1 5 1 5 x x | G# | 4 | 4 |
| 6 | x-11-13-13-9-x | x G# D# G# G# x | x 1 5 1 1 x | G# | 4 | 4 |
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 G#
- ScaleG# major pentatonic
- ChordG#
- ChordG#7
Related
- ChordG# — Major
- ChordG#7 — Dominant seventh
- ChordG#aug — Augmented
- ChordG#dim — Diminished
- ChordG#m — Minor
- DegreesAb — degree map
- Neck mapAb — note map
- KeyKey of Ab