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Fig. 1 · Db11 · moderate

ukulele chord

D♭11

D♭1F3A♭5C♭♭7E♭9G♭11

Six notes in theory; in practice the third is usually dropped, because the eleventh sits a half step above it.

Written the other way round it is C♯11 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

D♭11 is D♭, F, A♭, C♭, E♭ and G♭ — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 11 counted from D♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 6, the 3, 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 6676: 2 fingers, one of them barring the 6th fret, held at the 6th 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 3 and 5. 4 strings cannot carry 6 notes, and the 3 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 D♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

9
first inversion

D♭11/F

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second inversion

D♭11/A♭

1322

2
third inversion

D♭11/C♭

4324

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

D♭add9added ninthD♭9dominant ninthD♭maj9major ninthD♭majorD♭mminorD♭dimdiminished

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