B maj11 Chord on Puerto Rican Cuatro
Play B maj11 on Puerto Rican Cuatro: diagrams, finger positions, intervals, and every voicing up and down the neck for this instrument.
The B maj11 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 B, C#, D#, E, F#, A#. This page shows how to play B maj11 on Puerto Rican Cuatro with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.
The shape nearest the nut leaves the B and E strings open and takes the rest at fret 1, reaching across 4 frets. The root is the B string itself. It sounds from E3 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 B 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.