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Fig. 1 · B6 · easy

ukulele chord

B6

B1D♯3F♯5G♯6

A major triad with a sixth added. The same four notes as a minor seventh chord a third below.

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Every fingering that fits a hand

3
Fig. 2

434x

easy · no 5

2
Fig. 3

4342

hard · no 5

4
Fig. 4

4646

moderate · barre

11
Fig. 5

xbbb

moderate · barre · no 5

3
Fig. 6

4346

hard · no 5

What is true of it

B6 is B, D♯, F♯ and G♯ — 1, 3, 5 and 6 counted from B.

These are also the notes of G♯m7/B and A♭m7/B. 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 434x: 3 fingers, held at the 3rd 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.

It leaves out the 5. 4 strings cannot carry 4 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

2
first inversion

B6/D♯

x342

11
second inversion

B6/F♯

bbbb

third inversion

B6/G♯

1322

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.

B in other shapes

Bm6minor sixthBmajorBmminorBdimdiminished

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