×DbFbBbDbFb
Fig. 1 · Dbm6 · hard

guitar chord

D♭m6

D♭1F♭♭3A♭5B♭6

A minor triad with a major sixth added, which is why it is not simply a minor chord with a flat seventh.

Written the other way round it is C♯m6 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x42320

hard · no 5

Fig. 3

x46350

hard

Fig. 4

x42350

hard · no 5

9
Fig. 5

9bb9b9

hard · barre

2
Fig. 6

x4232x

hard · no 5

What is true of it

D♭m6 is D♭, F♭, A♭ and B♭ — 1, b3, 5 and 6 counted from D♭.

These are also the notes of B♭m7♭5/D♭ and A♯m7♭5/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 x42320: 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 of the 5 need a barre.

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.

1 string stays 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♭m6/F♭

012120

2
second inversion

D♭m6/A♭

4423xx

third inversion

D♭m6/B♭

x12120

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♭6major sixthD♭majorD♭mminorD♭dimdiminished

Cm6Dm6D♯m6E♭m6Em6Fm6F♯m6G♭m6all 374