Banjo A♭7 chord (Sawmill)A♭ seventh on the 5-string banjo: 1 1 0 4, and 6 more shapes

Ab7 chord chart for 5-string banjo in Sawmill tuning: 1 1 0 4, open position, with the short 5th string marked
Ab7 (Ab seventh) on the 5-string banjo, Sawmill: 1 1 0 4, string 4 to string 1. Fingers are numbered on the dots; copper marks the root; the green ring on the left is the 5th string, solid when it’s in the chord.

Frets, string 4 to string 1: 1 1 0 4 (open position)

  1. String 4 (D): 1st fret, index finger (barre), E♭
  2. String 3 (G): 1st fret, index finger (barre), A♭
  3. String 2 (C): open, C
  4. String 1 (D): 4th fret, little finger, G♭
  5. String 5, the short g: open, G, not in the chord

Sounds: E♭ A♭ C G♭  ·  A♭7 is A♭, C, E♭, G♭ (1 · 3 · 5 · ♭7)

The 5th string: the short g rubs against the A♭ and G♭ in this shape, a semitone away: some players let it ring, some skip it.

Sawmill tuning: gDGCD, the short 5th string first, then strings 4 to 1.

Hear it in the app ›

The link can’t set the tuning: the app starts in open G. Choose Sawmill once in its Settings and it remembers.

More A♭7 shapes

  1. 412gG♭A♭CE♭4 1 0 1
    open
  2. 314gG♭A♭CG♭4 1 0 4
    open · no 5th
  3. 3fr4312gA♭CE♭G♭6 5 3 4
    3fr
  4. 5fr2134gA♭CG♭A♭6 5 6 6
    5fr · no 5th
  5. 8fr2413gCG♭A♭C10 11 8 10
    8fr · no 5th
  6. 11fr3124gE♭G♭CE♭13 11 12 13
    11fr · no root

Other A♭ chords in Sawmill

A♭A♭mA♭7

Other seventh chords

G7A7D7C7B7E7F7B♭7E♭7F♯7C♯7A♭7

A♭7 in other tunings

Open GDouble COpen DC Tuning

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