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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

ukulele chord

F13

F1A3C5E♭♭7G9D13

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

F13 is F, A, C, E♭, G and D — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 13 counted from F.

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

No fingering of F13 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 F, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

2
first inversion

F13/A

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3
second inversion

F13/C

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3
third inversion

F13/E♭

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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.

F in other shapes

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