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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

ukulele chord

A13

A1C♯3E5G♭7B9F♯13

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

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What is true of it

A13 is A, C♯, E, G, B and F♯ — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 13 counted from A.

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

No fingering of A13 fits a hand on the ukulele: inside four frets, with the strings that sound next to each other and the root underneath, there is nothing to hold.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 2 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

A13/C♯

6630

7
second inversion

A13/E

9799

third inversion

A13/G

0120

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.

A in other shapes

Aadd9added ninthA9dominant ninthAmaj9major ninthAmajorAmminorAdimdiminished

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