guitar chord
D♯6
A major triad with a sixth added. The same four notes as a minor seventh chord a third below.
Written the other way round it is E♭6 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.
Every fingering that fits a hand
xx1013
open · no 5
xx1313
moderate · barre
x6554x
hard · no 5
x6858x
hard
x6558x
hard · no 5
What is true of it
D♯6 is D♯, F𝄪, A♯ and B♯ — 1, 3, 5 and 6 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.
These are also the notes of Cm7/D♯. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.
On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.
The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is xx1013: 3 fingers, held at the 1st fret.
1 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.
1 of the 5 need a barre.
It leaves out the 5. 6 strings cannot carry 4 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.
2 strings stay silent.
Where its notes are on the neck
The brass dots are D♯, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.
With a different note underneath
D♯6/F𝄪
31101x
D♯6/A♯
x1101x
D♯6/B♯
8a8888
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.