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Fig. 1 · D#13 · hard

guitar chord

D♯13

D♯1F𝄪3A♯5C♯♭7E♯9B♯13

Seven notes in theory and four or five in anyone’s hands: root, third, seventh and thirteenth carry it.

Written the other way round it is E♭13 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

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Fig. 2

bdbcdb

hard · barre · no 9

6
Fig. 3

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hard · barre · no 9

11
Fig. 4

bdbcdx

hard · barre · no 9

What is true of it

D♯13 is D♯, F𝄪, A♯, C♯, E♯ and B♯ — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 13 counted from D♯.

F𝄪 is a double sharp, and it has to be: every letter from D♯ upwards is used once, so the 3 cannot be written any other way.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 6, the 5, 9 and 1 go first, in that order.

The easiest of the 3 fingerings below is bdbcdb: 4 fingers, one of them barring the 11th fret, held at the 11th 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 9. 6 strings cannot carry 6 notes, and the 9 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

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

D♯13/F𝄪

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second inversion

D♯13/A♯

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third inversion

D♯13/C♯

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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♯add9added ninthD♯9dominant ninthD♯maj9major ninthD♯majorD♯mminorD♯dimdiminished

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