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Fig. 1 · Bb5 · easy

ukulele chord

B♭5

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Root and fifth, no third at all — neither major nor minor, which is the point.

Written the other way round it is A♯5 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

B♭5 is B♭ and F — 1 and 5 counted from B♭.

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 356x: 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.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 3 — 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

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first inversion

B♭5/F

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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.

B♭ in other shapes

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