D♯5

D♯1A♯5

Root and fifth, no third at all — neither major nor minor, which is the point.

Written the other way round it is E♭5 — 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

x366

easy

Fig. 3

8abx

easy

What is true of it

D♯5 is D♯ and A♯ — 1 and 5 counted from D♯.

The easiest of the 2 fingerings below is x366: 3 fingers, held at the 3rd 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. 4 — 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♯5/A♯

3366

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

C5 C♯5 D♭5 D5 E5 F5 F♯5 G♭5 all 374