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Fig. 1 · Bbaug · moderate

guitar chord

B♭aug

B♭1D3F♯♯5

Two major thirds stacked. Symmetrical: every note can be heard as the root.

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

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x10332

moderate

Fig. 3

x1433x

hard

3
Fig. 4

6543xx

hard

6
Fig. 5

xx8776

hard

4
Fig. 6

6547xx

hard

What is true of it

B♭aug is B♭, D and F♯ — 1, 3 and #5 counted from B♭.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x10332: 4 fingers, 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.

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♭aug/D

xx0332

second inversion

B♭aug/F♯

21033x

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♭majorB♭mminorB♭dimdiminishedB♭5power chordB♭sus2suspended secondB♭sus4suspended fourth

CaugC♯augD♭augDaugD♯augE♭augEaugFaugall 374