Daug

D1F♯3A♯♯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

x221

easy

Fig. 3

766x

easy

Fig. 4

7665

moderate

Fig. 5

7669

hard

Fig. 6

7aa9

hard

What is true of it

Daug is D, F♯ and A♯ — 1, 3 and #5 counted from D.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x221: 3 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.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — 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

first inversion

Daug/F♯

x665

second inversion

Daug/A♯

322x

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

Dmajor Dmminor Ddimdiminished D5power chord Dsus2suspended second Dsus4suspended fourth

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