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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

ukulele chord

E13

E1G♯3B5D♭7F♯9C♯13

Seven notes in theory and four or five in anyone’s hands: root, third, seventh and thirteenth carry it.

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What is true of it

E13 is E, G♯, B, D, F♯ and C♯ — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 13 counted from E.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 6, the 5, 9 and 1 go first, in that order.

No fingering of E13 fits a hand on the ukulele: inside four frets, with the strings that sound next to each other and the root underneath, there is nothing to hold.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 2 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are E, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

E13/G♯

1204

2
second inversion

E13/B

4244

2
third inversion

E13/D

x244

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.

E in other shapes

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