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Fig. 1 · Db6 · hard

guitar chord

D♭6

D♭1F3A♭5B♭6

A major triad with a sixth added. The same four notes as a minor seventh chord a third below.

Written the other way round it is C♯6 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

2
Fig. 2

x4332x

hard · no 5

3
Fig. 3

x4636x

hard

3
Fig. 4

x4336x

hard · no 5

8
Fig. 5

9b8axx

hard

8
Fig. 6

988axx

hard · no 5

What is true of it

D♭6 is D♭, F, A♭ and B♭ — 1, 3, 5 and 6 counted from D♭.

These are also the notes of B♭m7/D♭ and A♯m7/D♭. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x4332x: 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.

It leaves out the 5. 6 strings cannot carry 4 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

2 strings stay silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — 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

D♭6/F

113121

6
second inversion

D♭6/A♭

xx6666

6
third inversion

D♭6/B♭

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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

D♭m6minor sixthD♭majorD♭mminorD♭dimdiminished

C6D6D♯6E♭6E6F6F♯6G♭6all 374