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Fig. 1 · F#13 · hard

guitar chord

F♯13

F♯1A♯3C♯5E♭7G♯9D♯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 G♭13 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

242340

hard · barre · no 9

Fig. 3

xx4340

easy · no 5, 9

2
Fig. 4

242342

hard · barre · no 9

2
Fig. 5

24234x

hard · barre · no 9

9
Fig. 6

x9b9bb

hard · barre · no 9

What is true of it

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

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 242340: 4 fingers, one of them barring the 2nd fret, 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.

4 of the 5 need a barre.

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. 7 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are F♯, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

F♯13/A♯

x11120

second inversion

F♯13/C♯

x44340

third inversion

F♯13/E

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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.

F♯ in other shapes

F♯add9added ninthF♯9dominant ninthF♯maj9major ninthF♯majorF♯mminorF♯dimdiminished

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