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Fig. 1 · E11 · moderate

ukulele chord

E11

E1G♯3B5D♭7F♯9A11

Six notes in theory; in practice the third is usually dropped, because the eleventh sits a half step above it.

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What is true of it

E11 is E, G♯, B, D, F♯ and A — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 11 counted from E.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 6, the 3, 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 99a9: 2 fingers, one of them barring the 9th fret, held at the 9th 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.

It leaves out the 3 and 5. 4 strings cannot carry 6 notes, and the 3 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 3 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are E, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

E11/G♯

1220

second inversion

E11/B

4220

third inversion

E11/D

x220

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.

E in other shapes

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