A♯

A♯1C𝄪3E♯5

A major third and a perfect fifth over the root.

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

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

3211

moderate

Fig. 3

321x

easy

Fig. 4

3565

hard

Fig. 5

xaa8

easy

What is true of it

A♯ is A♯, C𝄪 and E♯ — 1, 3 and 5 counted from A♯.

C𝄪 is a double sharp, and it has to be: every letter from A♯ upwards is used once, so the 3 cannot be written any other way.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 3, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 4 fingerings below is 3211: 4 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.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 6 — 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

first inversion

A♯/C𝄪

x211

second inversion

A♯/E♯

aaax

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

A♯mminor A♯dimdiminished A♯augaugmented A♯5power chord A♯sus2suspended second A♯sus4suspended fourth

C C♯D♭D D♯E♭E F all 374