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Fig. 1 · D5 · hard

guitar chord

D5

D1A5

Root and fifth, no third at all — neither major nor minor, which is the point.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x50235

hard

Fig. 3

xx0235

easy

Fig. 4

x5023x

easy

What is true of it

D5 is D and A — 1 and 5 counted from D.

The easiest of the 3 fingerings below is x50235: 4 fingers, held at the 2nd 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.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 5 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

D5/A

x0023x

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.

D in other shapes

DmajorDmminorDdimdiminished

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