E13

E1G♯3B5D♭7F♯9C♯13

Seven notes in theory and four or five in anyone’s hands: root, third, seventh and thirteenth carry it.

on ukulele on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

040100

easy · no 9

Fig. 3

020120

open · no 9

Fig. 4

040404

easy · no 9

Fig. 5

040102

easy

Fig. 6

020122

moderate

What is true of it

E13 is E, G♯, B, D, F♯ and C♯ — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 13 counted from E.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 6, the 5, 9 and 1 go first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 040100: 2 fingers, held at the 1st fret.

1 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.

It leaves out the 9. 6 strings cannot carry 6 notes, and the 9 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are E, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

E13/G♯

440400

second inversion

E13/B

x20120

third inversion

E13/D

xx0120

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.

E in other shapes

Eadd9added ninth E9dominant ninth Emaj9major ninth Emajor Emminor Edimdiminished

C13 C♯13 D♭13 D13 D♯13 E♭13 F13 F♯13 all 374