4×FAbD
Fig. 1 · Fm6 · easy

ukulele chord

Fm6

F1A♭♭3C5D6

A minor triad with a major sixth added, which is why it is not simply a minor chord with a flat seventh.

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Every fingering that fits a hand

4
Fig. 2

x545

easy · no 5

8
Fig. 3

a8a8

hard · no 5

10
Fig. 4

acab

moderate · barre

8
Fig. 5

a8ax

easy · no 5

8
Fig. 6

a8ab

hard · no 5

What is true of it

Fm6 is F, A♭, C and D — 1, b3, 5 and 6 counted from F.

These are also the notes of Dm7♭5/F. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x545: 3 fingers, held at the 4th 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.

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

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — 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

Fm6/A♭

1213

4
second inversion

Fm6/C

5545

7
third inversion

Fm6/D

7888

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

F6major sixthFmajorFmminorFdimdiminished

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