D♭aug

D♭1F3A♯5

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

Written the other way round it is C♯aug — 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

x110

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

655x

easy

Fig. 4

6554

moderate

Fig. 5

6558

hard

Fig. 6

6998

hard

What is true of it

D♭aug is D♭, F and A — 1, 3 and #5 counted from D♭.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x110: one finger, one of them barring the 1st fret, 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 of the 5 need a barre.

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

D♭aug/F

x554

second inversion

D♭aug/A

2110

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

D♭major D♭mminor D♭dimdiminished D♭5power chord D♭sus2suspended second D♭sus4suspended fourth

Caug Daug D♯aug E♭aug Eaug Faug F♯aug G♭aug all 374