BAF#C#BE
Fig. 1 · B11 · easy

guitar chord

B11

B1D♯3F♯5A♭7C♯9E11

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

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

704600

easy · no 3

2
Fig. 3

x22222

moderate · barre · no 3

Fig. 4

x22220

moderate · barre · no 3, 5

Fig. 5

704640

moderate

Fig. 6

x21220

moderate · no 5

What is true of it

B11 is B, D♯, F♯, A, C♯ and E — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 11 counted from B.

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 704600: 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.

2 of the 5 need a barre.

It leaves out the 3. 6 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. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

B11/D♯

xx1220

second inversion

B11/F♯

222220

third inversion

B11/A

504600

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.

B in other shapes

Badd9added ninthB9dominant ninthBmaj9major ninthBmajorBmminorBdimdiminished

C11C♯11D♭11D11D♯11E♭11E11F11all 374