D — bouzouki chord
Major · 7 fingerings for trichordo (D–A–D)
Notes and intervals
D (D major) is built from D F♯ A: intervals 1 3 5.
Fingerings on D-A-D
Frets, low D · A · high D
- Drone (root + 5th): 0-0-0 (D A D)
- Root position: 0-0-4 (D A F♯)
- Root position: 12-9-7 (D F♯ A)
- 1st inversion: 4-5-7 (F♯ D A)
- 1st inversion: 4-0-0 (F♯ A D)
- 2nd inversion: 7-5-4 (A D F♯)
- 2nd inversion: 7-9-12 (A F♯ D)
The open courses D, A are chord tones, so shapes with a 0 let them ring.
In the dromoi
On D, the trichordo’s home note, D belongs to these dromoi:
- Houzam: core chord (D)
- Senga / Segah: core chord (D)
- Rast: core chord (D)
Trichordo (D-A-D) and tetrachordo (C-F-A-D)
These shapes are for the three-course trichordo. A tetrachordo’s A and D courses are tuned the same, so the top two notes stay put and the low-D bass note moves two frets up the C course. The first shape, 0-0-0 on trichordo, becomes C 2, A 0, D 0 on tetrachordo, with the F course left out.
More D chords
Relative minor: Bm