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Fig. 1 · D#11 · moderate

guitar chord

D♯11

D♯1F𝄪3A♯5C♯♭7E♯9G♯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 E♭11 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

6
Fig. 2

x66666

moderate · barre · no 3

6
Fig. 3

x6666x

moderate · barre · no 3, 5

11
Fig. 4

bbbcbd

moderate · barre

Fig. 5

xx1121

moderate · barre · no 3, 5

11
Fig. 6

bbbdbd

moderate · barre · no 3

What is true of it

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

F𝄪 is a double sharp, and it has to be: every letter from D♯ upwards is used once, so the 3 cannot be written any other way.

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 x66666: one finger, one of them barring the 6th fret, held at the 6th 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 D♯, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

3
first inversion

D♯11/F𝄪

343344

6
second inversion

D♯11/A♯

666666

third inversion

D♯11/C♯

x43044

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.

D♯ in other shapes

D♯add9added ninthD♯9dominant ninthD♯maj9major ninthD♯majorD♯mminorD♯dimdiminished

C11C♯11D♭11D11E11F11F♯11G♭11all 374