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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

ukulele chord

D♭13

D♭1F3A♭5C♭♭7E♭9B♭13

Seven notes in theory and four or five in anyone’s hands: root, third, seventh and thirteenth carry it.

Written the other way round it is C♯13 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

D♭13 is D♭, F, A♭, C♭, E♭ and B♭ — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 13 counted from D♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 6, the 5, 9 and 1 go first, in that order.

No fingering of D♭13 fits a hand on the ukulele: inside four frets, with the strings that sound next to each other and the root underneath, there is nothing to hold.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 2 — 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

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first inversion

D♭13/F

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third inversion

D♭13/C♭

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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.

D♭ in other shapes

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