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Fig. 1 · A11 · moderate

ukulele chord

A11

A1C♯3E5G♭7B9D11

Six notes in theory; in practice the third is usually dropped, because the eleventh sits a half step above it.

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What is true of it

A11 is A, C♯, E, G, B and D — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 11 counted from A.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 6, the 3, 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 2232: 2 fingers, one of them barring the 2nd fret, held at the 2nd 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 3 and 5. 4 strings cannot carry 6 notes, and the 3 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 3 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

5
first inversion

A11/C♯

6775

9
second inversion

A11/E

9baa

third inversion

A11/G

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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.

A in other shapes

Aadd9added ninthA9dominant ninthAmaj9major ninthAmajorAmminorAdimdiminished

C11C♯11D♭11D11D♯11E♭11E11F11all 374