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Fig. 1 · D#m6 · moderate

guitar chord

D♯m6

D♯1F♯♭3A♯5B♯6

A minor triad with a major sixth added, which is why it is not simply a minor chord with a flat seventh.

Written the other way round it is E♭m6 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

xx1312

moderate · barre

11
Fig. 3

bddbdb

hard · barre

4
Fig. 4

x6454x

hard · no 5

5
Fig. 5

x6857x

hard

4
Fig. 6

x6457x

hard · no 5

What is true of it

D♯m6 is D♯, F♯, A♯ and B♯ — 1, b3, 5 and 6 counted from D♯.

These are also the notes of Cm7♭5/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 xx1312: 3 fingers, 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.

2 of the 5 need a barre.

2 strings stay 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

first inversion

D♯m6/F♯

2313xx

second inversion

D♯m6/A♯

x11312

8
third inversion

D♯m6/B♯

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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.

D♯ in other shapes

D♯6major sixthD♯majorD♯mminorD♯dimdiminished

Cm6C♯m6D♭m6Dm6Em6Fm6F♯m6G♭m6all 374