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Fig. 1 · F11 · moderate

ukulele chord

F11

F1A3C5E♭♭7G9B♭11

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

F11 is F, A, C, E♭, G and B♭ — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 11 counted from F.

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 aaba: 2 fingers, one of them barring the 10th fret, held at the 10th 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 F, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

F11/A

2331

5
second inversion

F11/C

5766

third inversion

F11/E♭

x331

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.

F in other shapes

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