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Ab/A Guitar Chord

The fundamental chord with a bright, happy and stable sound. Forms the basis of most popular, rock, folk and classical music. Consists of three notes: the root, major third and perfect fifth. This is a slash chord — the bass note is A instead of the root.

Guitar

Strings X–0–1–1–1–4

How to play the Ab/A chord on guitar

Read the string pattern X–0–1–1–1–4 from the low E string to the high E string. Numbers in the pattern are frets; numbers in the colored dots are left-hand fingers. X means a muted string and 0 means an open string.

6th string (low E) Do not play
5th string (A) Play open
4th string (D) Fret 1 · index finger
3rd string (G) Fret 1 · index finger
2nd string (B) Fret 1 · index finger
1st string (high E) Fret 4 · little finger

Notation for Ab/A chord

Other names: Ab major, Ab maj, Ab M

Music theory name: major triad

Common name: Ab major chord

Intervals and tones in Ab/A chord

Note Interval
Ab Root
C Major 3rd
Eb Perfect 5th

All Variations

Open
X–0–1–1–1–4
Fret 4
X–0–6–5–4–4
Fret 4
X–X–7–5–4–4
Fret 6
X–0–6–8–9–8

More chords with Ab as the root

The same chord type in other keys