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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

ukulele chord

D♯13

D♯1F𝄪3A♯5C♯♭7E♯9B♯13

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

Written the other way round it is E♭13 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

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

F𝄪 is a double sharp, and it has to be: every letter from D♯ upwards is used once, so the 3 cannot be written any other way.

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

No fingering of D♯13 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

first inversion

D♯13/F𝄪

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second inversion

D♯13/A♯

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third inversion

D♯13/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

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

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