F# m11 Chord on Puerto Rican Cuatro

Play F# m11 on Puerto Rican Cuatro: diagrams, finger positions, intervals, and every voicing up and down the neck for this instrument.

The F# m11 chord is a minor extended chord that stacks higher tensions over a minor-seventh foundation. It is built from the notes F#, G#, A, B, C#, E. This page shows how to play F# m11 on Puerto Rican Cuatro with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.

The shape nearest the nut leaves the B, E and A strings open and takes the rest at fret 1, reaching across 4 frets. F# falls on the D string. It sounds from E3 up to G#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 F# 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.