G♯maj13 (major thirteenth) / A♭maj13 (major thirteenth)

7-note major 13th on G♯ / A♭G♯, A♯, C, C♯, D♯, F, G.

Press to hear the chord strummed low to high.

A major chord stacked to the thirteenth — the fullest resolved sonority, all seven degrees of the scale in one chord.

The notes

Pitches taken from the first fingering below — click any note to open its frequency page.

Interval formula

DegreeNoteWhat it is
1G♯root
9A♯ninth
3Cmajor third
11C♯eleventh (perfect fourth)
5D♯perfect fifth
13Fthirteenth
7Gmajor seventh

The formula reads in semitones above the root (G♯): 1, 9, 3, 11, 5, 13, 7. A voicing may leave a tone out — often the fifth — but never adds one from outside this set.

Guitar fingerings · 4

23
open position
4fr112341
from fret 4
8fr42311
from fret 8
11fr11234
from fret 11

Ukulele fingerings · 4

12
open position
3fr1311
from fret 3
5fr1324
from fret 5
8fr2314
from fret 8

Read a diagram top-down: the thick bar is the nut, dots are where to press (the number is which finger), means play the open string, means don't play it. A bar across strings is a barre.

Other G♯ / A♭ chords

maj13 (major thirteenth) chords on every root