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Fig. 1 · D#m7 · moderate

guitar chord

D♯m7

D♯1F♯♭3A♯5C♯♭7

Minor triad with a minor seventh. The same four notes as a major sixth chord a third above.

Written the other way round it is E♭m7 — 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

bdbbbb

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

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hard

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Fig. 4

x68676

moderate · barre

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Fig. 5

bdbbbx

moderate · barre

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Fig. 6

bdbbbe

moderate · barre

What is true of it

D♯m7 is D♯, F♯, A♯ and C♯ — 1, b3, 5 and b7 counted from D♯.

These are also the notes of F♯6/D♯ and G♭6/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 bdbbbb: 2 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.

4 of the 5 need a barre.

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♯m7/F♯

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second inversion

D♯m7/A♯

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third inversion

D♯m7/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♯7dominant seventhD♯maj7major seventhD♯m(maj7)minor major seventhD♯majorD♯mminorD♯dimdiminished

Cm7C♯m7D♭m7Dm7Em7Fm7F♯m7G♭m7all 374