D♯dim

D♯1F♯♭3A♭5

Two minor thirds stacked. The fifth is diminished, so it cannot be dropped without losing the chord.

Written the other way round it is E♭dim — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukulele on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

xx1242

hard

Fig. 3

x6787x

hard

Fig. 4

xxdbab

hard

Fig. 5

bcdbxx

moderate · barre

What is true of it

D♯dim is D♯, F♯ and A — 1, b3 and b5 counted from D♯.

The easiest of the 4 fingerings below is xx1242: 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 of the 4 need a barre.

2 strings stay silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 6 — 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

first inversion

D♯dim/F♯

2012xx

second inversion

D♯dim/A

x04242

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♯major D♯mminor D♯augaugmented D♯5power chord D♯sus2suspended second D♯sus4suspended fourth

Cdim C♯dim D♭dim Ddim Edim Fdim F♯dim G♭dim all 374