D♯

D♯1F𝄪3A♯5

A major third and a perfect fifth over the root.

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

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x331

easy

Fig. 3

8766

hard

Fig. 4

876x

easy

Fig. 5

8aba

hard

Fig. 6

x336

moderate · barre · no 5

What is true of it

D♯ is D♯, F𝄪 and A♯ — 1, 3 and 5 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 3, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x331: 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.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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

first inversion

D♯/F𝄪

0331

second inversion

D♯/A♯

333x

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♯mminor D♯dimdiminished D♯augaugmented D♯5power chord D♯sus2suspended second D♯sus4suspended fourth

C C♯D♭D E F F♯G♭all 374