Baug

B1D♯3F𝄪♯5

Two major thirds stacked. Symmetrical: every note can be heard as the root.

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

433x

easy

Fig. 3

4332

moderate

Fig. 4

4336

hard

Fig. 5

4776

hard

Fig. 6

xbba

easy

What is true of it

Baug is B, D♯ and F𝄪 — 1, 3 and #5 counted from B.

F𝄪 is a double sharp, and it has to be: every letter from B upwards is used once, so the #5 cannot be written any other way.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 433x: 3 fingers, held at the 3rd 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.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

Baug/D♯

x332

second inversion

Baug/F𝄪

0332

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.

B in other shapes

Bmajor Bmminor Bdimdiminished B5power chord Bsus2suspended second Bsus4suspended fourth

Caug C♯aug D♭aug Daug D♯aug E♭aug Eaug Faug all 374