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Fig. 1 · C11 · moderate

guitar chord

C11

C1E3G5B♭♭7D9F11

Six notes in theory; in practice the third is usually dropped, because the eleventh sits a half step above it.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x33330

moderate · barre · no 5

3
Fig. 3

x33333

moderate · barre · no 3

Fig. 4

x30066

easy · no 3

Fig. 5

x30360

easy · no 5

3
Fig. 6

x3333x

moderate · barre · no 3, 5

What is true of it

C11 is C, E, G, B♭, D and F — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 11 counted from C.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 6, the 3, 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x33330: one finger, one of them barring the 3rd fret, held at the 3rd fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

3 of the 5 need a barre.

It leaves out the 5. 6 strings cannot carry 6 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are C, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

C11/E

010011

second inversion

C11/G

333330

third inversion

C11/B♭

630060

An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

C in other shapes

Cadd9added ninthC9dominant ninthCmaj9major ninthCmajorCmminorCdimdiminished

C♯11D♭11D11D♯11E♭11E11F11F♯11all 374