guitar chord
G13
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
303000
open · no 5
303200
open · no 5
303400
easy · no 5
302001
open · no 5
300460
easy
What is true of it
G13 is G, B, D, F, A and E — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 13 counted from G.
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 303000: 2 fingers, held at the 3rd fret.
3 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.
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 G, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.
With a different note underneath
G13/B
x23000
G13/D
x53000
G13/F
100000
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.