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Fig. 1 · D#m9 · 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 E♭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 8698: 4 fingers, held at the 6th 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

8
first inversion

D♯m9/F♯

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2
second inversion

D♯m9/A♯

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6
third inversion

D♯m9/C♯

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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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