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Fig. 1 · C13 · easy

ukulele chord

C13

C1E3G5B♭♭7D9A13

Seven notes in theory and four or five in anyone’s hands: root, third, seventh and thirteenth carry it.

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What is true of it

C13 is C, E, G, B♭, D and A — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 13 counted from C.

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

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 5460: 3 fingers, held at the 4th 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.

It leaves out the 5 and 9. 4 strings cannot carry 6 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 3 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

C13/E

x460

second inversion

C13/G

0460

third inversion

C13/B♭

3000

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.

C in other shapes

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