guitar chord
D♯m9
A minor seventh with a ninth on top.
Written the other way round it is E♭m9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.
Every fingering that fits a hand
bdbbbd
moderate · barre
x6466x
hard · no 5
bdbbed
hard · barre
b9baxx
hard · no 5
b8bbxx
hard · no 5
What is true of it
D♯m9 is D♯, F♯, A♯, C♯ and E♯ — 1, b3, 5, b7 and 9 counted from D♯.
On an instrument that cannot reach all 5, the 5 and 1 go first, in that order.
The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is bdbbbd: 3 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.
2 of the 5 need a barre.
Where its notes are on the neck
The brass dots are D♯, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.
With a different note underneath
D♯m9/F♯
243322
D♯m9/A♯
698666
D♯m9/C♯
99bab9
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.