Most Ab minor chords with extensions can be used as a substitute for the Ab minor chord. The most common way to play the A flat minor chord is as a root-6 minor barre chord, starting in the third fret. If you’ve come to this page just to view some chord diagrams for Abm, here they are. The seven chords in the key of A flat minor are: Abm, Bb diminished, Cb+, Dbm, Eb, Fb, G diminished A flat minor is the first chord in the key of A flat minor.

A minor is the relative minor of Cb Major.The Ab minor chord (just like all minor chords) contains the following intervals (from the root note): minor 3rd, Major 3rd, Perfect 4th (back to the root note).The Ab minor chord is produced by playing the 1st (root), flat 3rd and 5th notes of the Ab Major scale.The A flat minor chord contains the notes Ab, Cb and Eb.The Abm chord is enharmonically the same as G#m. The chord itself contains the note B, which means the chord can technically be played as an open chord (see the first shape in the image below), but this is not a common way of playing the chord, even if it is the easiest. The Ab minor chord is most commonly played as a bar chord.

A flat minor scale