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Guitar chord
G♯m Chord
G♯m is a minor chord rooted on G♯. Major with the third lowered a semitone. That one note is the whole difference between happy and sad.
The notes
Every G♯m chord anywhere on the neck is some arrangement of these 3 notes.
G♯1
B♭3
D♯5
How to play it
3 shapes, low on the neck to high. Tap any diagram to hear it. Green marks the root.