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Fig. 1 · Bb11 · moderate

guitar chord

B♭11

B♭1D3F5A♭♭7C9E♭11

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

Written the other way round it is A♯11 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x11111

moderate · barre · no 3

Fig. 3

x1111x

moderate · barre · no 3, 5

6
Fig. 4

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moderate · barre

13
Fig. 5

xddddd

moderate · barre · no 3

6
Fig. 6

666868

moderate · barre · no 3

What is true of it

B♭11 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 x11111: one finger, one of them barring the 1st fret, held at the 1st 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 3. 6 strings cannot carry 6 notes, and the 3 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 B♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

B♭11/D

x50544

second inversion

B♭11/F

111111

third inversion

B♭11/A♭

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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.

B♭ in other shapes

B♭add9added ninthB♭9dominant ninthB♭maj9major ninthB♭majorB♭mminorB♭dimdiminished

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