guitar chord
D11
Six notes in theory; in practice the third is usually dropped, because the eleventh sits a half step above it.
Every fingering that fits a hand
xx0010
open · no 3, 5
x55555
moderate · barre · no 3
x5555x
moderate · barre · no 3, 5
aaabac
moderate · barre
x50553
hard · no 3, 5
What is true of it
D11 is D, F♯, A, C, E and G — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 11 counted from D.
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 xx0010: one finger, held at the 1st fret.
1 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.
3 of the 5 need a barre.
It leaves out the 3 and 5. 6 strings cannot carry 6 notes, and the 3 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.
2 strings stay silent.
Where its notes are on the neck
The brass dots are D, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.
With a different note underneath
D11/F♯
200010
D11/A
x00010
D11/C
x30030
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.