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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

ukulele chord

A♯13

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

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What is true of it

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

C𝄪 and F𝄪 are double sharps, and they have to be: every letter from A♯ 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.

No fingering of A♯13 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

7
first inversion

A♯13/C𝄪

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8
second inversion

A♯13/E♯

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third inversion

A♯13/G♯

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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.

A♯ in other shapes

A♯add9added ninthA♯9dominant ninthA♯maj9major ninthA♯majorA♯mminorA♯dimdiminished

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