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Fig. 1 · Bb · moderate

ukulele chord

B♭

B♭1D3F5

A major third and a perfect fifth over the root.

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

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Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

3211

moderate

Fig. 3

321x

easy

3
Fig. 4

3565

hard

8
Fig. 5

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easy

What is true of it

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

On an instrument that cannot reach all 3, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 4 fingerings below is 3211: 4 fingers, held at the 1st 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.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 6 — 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♭/D

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10
second inversion

B♭/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

B♭mminorB♭dimdiminishedB♭augaugmentedB♭5power chordB♭sus2suspended secondB♭sus4suspended fourth

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