G#maj13 — G# major thirteenth chord
A major seventh chord with the ninth and the thirteenth added. The eleventh is normally left out because it clashes with the major third.
- 1 = G#
- 3 = B#
- 5 = D#
- 7 = F##
- 9 = A#
- 13 = E#
- Symbol
- G#maj13
- Root
- G#
- Quality
- Major thirteenth
- Family
- extended
- Notes
- G# B# D# F## A# E#
- Degree formula
1 3 5 7 9 13- Semitones from the root
0 2 4 7 9 11- Distinct pitch classes
- 6
- Interval structure
- Stacked from the root: 4 semitones, 3 semitones, 4 semitones, 3 semitones, 7 semitones
- Notation
- Written maj13. A tonic chord in jazz voicing; in practice the fifth is often dropped so the seventh and thirteenth can sit close together.
- Key
- G# · Ab major / F minor key signature
Fingering charts
The library holds 9 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 |
| 3 | B# | 4 | Major third |
| 5 | D# | 7 | Perfect fifth |
| 7 | F## | 11 | Major seventh |
| 9 | A# | 2 | Major second |
| 13 | E# | 9 | Major sixth |
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# – B# – D# – F## – A# – E# | 0 4 7 11 2 9 |
| first inversion | B# | 3 | B# – D# – F## – A# – E# – G# | 0 3 7 10 5 8 |
| second inversion | D# | 5 | D# – F## – A# – E# – G# – B# | 0 4 7 2 5 9 |
| third inversion | F## | 7 | F## – A# – E# – G# – B# – D# | 0 3 10 1 5 8 |
| fourth inversion | A# | 9 | A# – E# – G# – B# – D# – F## | 0 7 10 2 5 9 |
| fifth inversion | E# | 13 | E# – G# – B# – D# – F## – A# | 0 3 7 10 2 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 | 4-3-3-3-4-3 | G# C F A# D# G | 1 3 13 9 5 7 | G# | 1 | 6 |
| 2 | 4-6-5-5-6-6 | G# D# G C F A# | 1 5 7 3 13 9 | G# | 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 4-1-1-0-1-1 | G# A# D# G C F | 1 9 5 7 3 13 | G# | 4 | 6 |
| 4 | 4-1-3-5-4-3 | G# A# F C D# G | 1 9 13 3 5 7 | G# | 4 | 6 |
| 5 | 4-1-5-5-4-1 | G# A# G C D# F | 1 9 7 3 5 13 | G# | 4 | 6 |
| 6 | 4-3-5-3-4-1 | G# C G A# D# F | 1 3 7 9 5 13 | G# | 4 | 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 G#
- ScaleG# major
- ChordG#maj9
- ChordG#
- ChordG#7
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