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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

ukulele chord

B♭13

B♭1D3F5A♭♭7C9G13

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 A♯13 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

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

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

No fingering of B♭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 B♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

7
first inversion

B♭13/D

788a

8
second inversion

B♭13/F

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third inversion

B♭13/A♭

1233

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

B♭add9added ninthB♭9dominant ninthB♭maj9major ninthB♭majorB♭mminorB♭dimdiminished

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