Chord

Gb Minor-Major 7

  • Gbm(maj7)
  • GbmMaj7
  • Gbmin(maj7)
  • Gbminmaj7
  • Gb-maj7
  • Gb-Δ7
  • Gbmin#7
  • Gbm#7
  • Gb-#7
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
Gbm3BbbM3DbM3F

Gb Minor-Major 7, written Gbm(maj7), is built from Gb, Bbb, Db and F: the root, minor 3rd, 5th and major 7th.

Its 3rd and 7th, Bbb and F, are its guide tones: they say what kind of chord it is, so voicings are built around them and the root is often left to the bass.

In the progressions here, Gbm(maj7) is the imaj7 of the Minor Line Cliché in Gb.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    Gb Melodic Minor

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  2. Mode of Harmonic Minor

    Gb Harmonic Minor

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Voicings All 14