D# 7add11 Chord on 8-String Guitar

Play D# 7add11 on 8-String Guitar: 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 8-String Guitar with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.

There is no open-string version on 8-String Guitar: the lowest shape barres fret 6 and covers 3 frets. The F#, B and E strings stay silent, so 5 of 8 sound. D# falls on the A string. It sounds from D#3 up to A#4.

8-String Guitar is tuned F#–B–E–A–D–G–B–E, with 15 frets to work with.

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.