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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

ukulele chord

D13

D1F♯3A5C♭7E9B13

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

D13 is D, F♯, A, C, E and B — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 13 counted from D.

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

No fingering of D13 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 D, 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

D13/F♯

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second inversion

D13/A

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third inversion

D13/C

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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.

D in other shapes

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