D♯m(maj7)

D♯1F♯♭3A♯5C𝄪7

Minor triad, major seventh — the tonic chord of harmonic minor.

Written the other way round it is E♭m(maj7) — 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

8665

hard

Fig. 3

8aa9

hard

Fig. 4

x325

easy · no 5

What is true of it

D♯m(maj7) is D♯, F♯, A♯ and C𝄪 — 1, b3, 5 and 7 counted from D♯.

C𝄪 is a double sharp, and it has to be: every letter from D♯ upwards is used once, so the 7 cannot be written any other way.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 3 fingerings below is 8665: 4 fingers, held at the 5th 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.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 5 — 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

second inversion

D♯m(maj7)/A♯

3325

third inversion

D♯m(maj7)/C𝄪

7666

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♯7dominant seventh D♯maj7major seventh D♯m7minor seventh D♯major D♯mminor D♯dimdiminished

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