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Fig. 1 · Dbm9 · hard

ukulele chord

D♭m9

D♭1F♭♭3A♭5C♭♭7E♭9

A minor seventh with a ninth on top.

Written the other way round it is C♯m9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

D♭m9 is D♭, F♭, A♭, C♭ and E♭ — 1, b3, 5, b7 and 9 counted from D♭.

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

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 6476: 4 fingers, held at the 4th 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 5. 4 strings cannot carry 5 notes, and the 5 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

6
first inversion

D♭m9/F♭

9876

second inversion

D♭m9/A♭

1302

third inversion

D♭m9/C♭

4304

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♭add9added ninthD♭9dominant ninthD♭maj9major ninthD♭majorD♭mminorD♭dimdiminished

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