D# 7add11 Chord on Puerto Rican Cuatro

Play D# 7add11 on Puerto Rican Cuatro: diagrams, finger positions, intervals, and every voicing up and down the neck for this instrument.

The D# 7add11 chord is an extended or altered dominant that stacks ninths, elevenths, thirteenths, or chromatic tensions over a dominant-seventh core. It is built from the notes D#, G, G#, A#, C#. This page shows how to play D# 7add11 on Puerto Rican Cuatro with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.

The G string ring open in the lowest shape, with the remaining notes fretted at fret 1 over a 4-fret stretch. D# falls on the B string. It sounds from G#3 up to G4.

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 D# 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.