G# m7#5 Chord on Puerto Rican Cuatro
Play G# m7#5 on Puerto Rican Cuatro: diagrams, finger positions, intervals, and every voicing up and down the neck for this instrument.
The G# m7#5 chord is a minor seventh with a raised fifth, an altered, unstable color. It is built from the notes G#, B, E, F#. This page shows how to play G# m7#5 on Puerto Rican Cuatro with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.
The shape nearest the nut leaves the B and E strings open and takes the rest at fret 1, reaching across 4 frets. G# falls on the G string. It sounds from E3 up to G#4.
Puerto Rican Cuatro is strung in five courses of two, the lower two paired an octave apart, so each stopped note here sounds as two — which is why the shape rings thicker than the same grip on a single-strung instrument.
Browse alternate voicings to find the one that sits best under your fingers, then compare it with the other chord types built on G# or explore the same shape in nearby keys. The diagrams list the notes in each voicing so you can connect the shape to the theory behind it.