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Fig. 1 · G13 · easy

ukulele chord

G13

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

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Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

0502

easy · no 5, 9

Fig. 3

0412

easy · no 5, 9

What is true of it

G13 is G, B, D, F, A and E — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 13 counted from G.

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

The easiest of the 2 fingerings below is 0502: 2 fingers, held at the 2nd 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 5 and 9. 4 strings cannot carry 6 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 4 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

G13/B

4500

5
second inversion

G13/D

7577

third inversion

G13/F

x502

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.

G in other shapes

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