Daug guitar chord
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About Daug — 1st inversion
Daug is D, F# and A# — D with the fifth raised a semitone.
It sounds stretched, and suspended between keys. Its commonest job is passing between a major triad and its sixth or seventh, with the raised fifth as a single voice walking up.
Daug notes and formula
| D | F# | A# |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | ♯5 |
Passing chord — it belongs to no key in particular.
Also written D+, D(#5) or D augmented. The same chord either way; which spelling you meet depends on who wrote the chart.
How to play Daug
Daug in 1st inversion puts F# in the bass instead of D, the 3rd of the chord. The notes are the same; what changes is what the bass line does, which is most of why you would reach for it — it lets the lowest voice move by step where the root would have jumped.
One of Daug’s 9 common shapes does this: xx4332.
Start with xx0332 — 1 open string and only 3 fretted notes. 1 of the 9 shapes here sits in open position. None of them needs a barre. Together they cover the neck from the 2nd fret to the 12th.
| Frets | Where | Bass | Top | Hand |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| xx0332 | open position | D, root position | F# | 1 open string |
| xx4332 | 2nd fret | F#, 1st inversion | F# | all fretted |
| x5433x | 3rd fret | D, root position | D | all fretted |
| x5x776 | 5th fret | D, root position | A# | all fretted |
| x5877x | 5th fret | D, root position | F# | all fretted |
| xxx776 | 6th fret | D, root position | A# | all fretted |
| 10-9-8-7-7-x | 7th fret | D, root position | F# | all fretted |
| 10-x-12-11-11-10 | 10th fret | D, root position | D | all fretted |
| x-x-12-11-11-10 | 10th fret | D, root position | D | all fretted |
The same notes rebuilt from scratch give 45 triad voicings, each on its own page.
What to play over Daug
Every note of Daug is in D whole tone and D altered.
Chords near Daug
Change one note of Daug and you have D (the sharp fifth becomes a fifth), Dmaj7#5 (add the major seventh), Daug7 (add the flat seventh), D/F# (the sharp fifth becomes a fifth), D/A (the sharp fifth becomes a fifth) or D/Bb (add the fifth).
Daug is a augmented chord — root, major third, sharp fifth. Augmented chords on every root.
On Daug’s sound and use this page follows Stefan Kostka, Dorothy Payne & Byron Almén, Tonal Harmony (McGraw-Hill, 8th ed., 2018). The shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in where the chords and the theory come from.