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Fig. 1 · D#6 · moderate

ukulele chord

D♯6

D♯1F𝄪3A♯5B♯6

A major triad with a sixth added. The same four notes as a minor seventh chord a third below.

Written the other way round it is E♭6 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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Every fingering that fits a hand

3
Fig. 2

x333

moderate · barre · no 5

7
Fig. 3

878x

easy · no 5

6
Fig. 4

8786

hard · no 5

8
Fig. 5

8a8a

moderate · barre

7
Fig. 6

878a

hard · no 5

What is true of it

D♯6 is D♯, F𝄪, A♯ and B♯ — 1, 3, 5 and 6 counted from D♯.

F𝄪 is a double sharp, and it has to be: every letter from D♯ upwards is used once, so the 3 cannot be written any other way.

These are also the notes of Cm7/D♯. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x333: one finger, one of them barring the 3rd fret, 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.

2 of the 5 need a barre.

It leaves out the 5. 4 strings cannot carry 4 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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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♯6/F𝄪

0333

3
second inversion

D♯6/A♯

3333

third inversion

D♯6/B♯

5036

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♯m6minor sixthD♯majorD♯mminorD♯dimdiminished

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