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Fig. 1 · Bb6 · easy

ukulele chord

B♭6

B♭1D3F5G6

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

Written the other way round it is A♯6 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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Every fingering that fits a hand

2
Fig. 2

323x

easy · no 5

Fig. 3

3231

moderate · no 5

3
Fig. 4

3535

moderate · barre

10
Fig. 5

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moderate · barre · no 5

2
Fig. 6

3235

hard · no 5

What is true of it

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

These are also the notes of Gm7/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 323x: 3 fingers, held at the 2nd 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

first inversion

B♭6/D

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10
second inversion

B♭6/F

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third inversion

B♭6/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.

B♭ in other shapes

B♭m6minor sixthB♭majorB♭mminorB♭dimdiminished

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