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Fig. 1 · Dm6 · easy

ukulele chord

Dm6

D1F♭3A5B6

A minor triad with a major sixth added, which is why it is not simply a minor chord with a flat seventh.

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Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x212

easy · no 5

5
Fig. 3

7575

hard · no 5

7
Fig. 4

7978

moderate · barre

5
Fig. 5

757x

easy · no 5

5
Fig. 6

7578

hard · no 5

What is true of it

Dm6 is D, F, A and B — 1, b3, 5 and 6 counted from D.

These are also the notes of Bm7♭5/D. 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 x212: 3 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.

1 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 D, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

5
first inversion

Dm6/F

x575

second inversion

Dm6/A

2212

third inversion

Dm6/B

4210

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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