A# maj7add13 Chord on Puerto Rican Cuatro

Play A# maj7add13 on Puerto Rican Cuatro: diagrams, finger positions, intervals, and every voicing up and down the neck for this instrument.

The A# maj7add13 chord is a major extended chord that stacks ninths, elevenths, or thirteenths over a major-seventh foundation for a rich, jazzy color. It is built from the notes A#, D, F, G, A. This page shows how to play A# maj7add13 on Puerto Rican Cuatro with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.

The shape nearest the nut leaves the A, D and G strings open and takes the rest at fret 10, reaching across 2 frets. A# falls on the B string. It sounds from A3 up to A#4.

Puerto Rican Cuatro is strung in five courses of two, the lower two paired an octave apart, so each stopped note here sounds as two — which is why the shape rings thicker than the same grip on a single-strung instrument.

Browse alternate voicings to find the one that sits best under your fingers, then compare it with the other chord types built on A# or explore the same shape in nearby keys. The diagrams list the notes in each voicing so you can connect the shape to the theory behind it.