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Fig. 1 · D11 · moderate

ukulele chord

D11

D1F♯3A5C♭7E9G11

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

D11 is D, F♯, A, C, E and G — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 11 counted from D.

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 7787: 2 fingers, one of them barring the 7th fret, held at the 7th 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 D, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

10
first inversion

D11/F♯

bcca

2
second inversion

D11/A

2433

third inversion

D11/C

5430

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.

D in other shapes

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