Faug

F1A3C♯♯5

Two major thirds stacked. Symmetrical: every note can be heard as the root.

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x554

easy

Fig. 3

a99x

easy

Fig. 4

a998

hard

Fig. 5

a99c

hard

What is true of it

Faug is F, A and C♯ — 1, 3 and #5 counted from F.

The easiest of the 4 fingerings below is x554: 3 fingers, held at the 4th 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.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 6 — 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

first inversion

Faug/A

2110

second inversion

Faug/C♯

x110

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

Fmajor Fmminor Fdimdiminished F5power chord Fsus2suspended second Fsus4suspended fourth

Caug C♯aug D♭aug Daug D♯aug E♭aug Eaug F♯aug all 374