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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

ukulele chord

F♯13

F♯1A♯3C♯5E♭7G♯9D♯13

Seven notes in theory and four or five in anyone’s hands: root, third, seventh and thirteenth carry it.

Written the other way round it is G♭13 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

F♯13 is F♯, A♯, C♯, E, G♯ and D♯ — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 13 counted from F♯.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 6, the 5, 9 and 1 go first, in that order.

No fingering of F♯13 fits a hand on the ukulele: inside four frets, with the strings that sound next to each other and the root underneath, there is nothing to hold.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 2 — 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

F♯13/A♯

3304

4
second inversion

F♯13/C♯

6466

4
third inversion

F♯13/E

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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

F♯add9added ninthF♯9dominant ninthF♯maj9major ninthF♯majorF♯mminorF♯dimdiminished

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