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Fig. 1 · D#9 · hard

ukulele chord

D♯9

D♯1F𝄪3A♯5C♯♭7E♯9

A dominant seventh carrying a ninth on top.

Written the other way round it is E♭9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

D♯9 is D♯, F𝄪, A♯, C♯ and E♯ — 1, 3, 5, b7 and 9 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.

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 8798: 4 fingers, held at the 7th 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

first inversion

D♯9/F𝄪

0111

3
second inversion

D♯9/A♯

3534

3
third inversion

D♯9/C♯

6536

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♯maj9major ninthD♯m9minor ninthD♯majorD♯mminorD♯dimdiminished

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