guitar chord
F13
Seven notes in theory and four or five in anyone’s hands: root, third, seventh and thirteenth carry it.
Every fingering that fits a hand
100041
easy · no 5
100043
easy · no 5
10004x
easy · no 5
101031
moderate · no 5
101033
moderate · no 5
What is true of it
F13 is F, A, C, E♭, G and D — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 13 counted from F.
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 100041: 3 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.
It leaves out the 5. 6 strings cannot carry 6 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.
Where its notes are on the neck
The brass dots are F, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.
With a different note underneath
F13/A
x0004x
F13/C
x30045
F13/E♭
x60045
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.