What chord is this?

[Wild_Child]

I've been working out the live acoustic version of Sonata Arctica's 'Mary Lou', but there's one chord I can't quite seem to get the right tones of.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM-jvvJmZkY

It occurs in this video at about 1:14, the last chord of the prechorus after the Abm. The leading tone is an F which moves towards the following Dbm, but the rest has completely thrown me. The guitar is tuned to Eb, by the way.

Can somebody help me out?

[kennydoe]

Sounds like he's just adding a '6' the Ab (which is not a minor, but a major).

I don't know why he'd change his position to do that....maybe he's jumping up to the 5th fret A chord from the open one.

If you're trying to play it, just grab the 2nd fret of the high E string with your pinky.
If you want to change positions like the guy does, play a 5th fret A bar chord and use your pinky ont he 7th fret B string to get that note.

This is all assuming your'e tuned down.

[Wild_Child]

Sounds good, it was thinking the previous chord was an Amin that was throwing me off. Thanks kenny!

[kennydoe]

I'm also thinking (and keep in mind, i have never ehard this song) that he might have been going for an augmented chord and hit the 6th by accident. The 6th is a bit out of the blue there and doesn't really fit - an Aug chord would work much betterly there.

JMHO
~K