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Fig. 1 · B5 · moderate

guitar chord

B5

B1F♯5

Root and fifth, no third at all — neither major nor minor, which is the point.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x24402

moderate

Fig. 3

x2440x

easy

What is true of it

B5 is B and F♯ — 1 and 5 counted from B.

The easiest of the 2 fingerings below is x24402: 4 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.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 4 — 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

B5/F♯

xx4402

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

BmajorBmminorBdimdiminished

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