D♯m

D♯1F♯♭3A♯5

The major triad with its third lowered by a half step.

Written the other way round it is E♭m — 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

x321

easy

Fig. 3

8666

hard

Fig. 4

866x

easy

Fig. 5

8669

hard

Fig. 6

8ab9

hard

What is true of it

D♯m is D♯, F♯ and A♯ — 1, b3 and 5 counted from D♯.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 3, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x321: 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 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♯m/F♯

x666

second inversion

D♯m/A♯

332x

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

Cm C♯m D♭m Dm Em Fm F♯m G♭m all 374