Baug — B augmented chord
Root, major third and augmented fifth: two stacked major thirds. Because the thirds are equal the chord divides the octave into three, so it has three enharmonic spellings and only four distinct forms.
- 1 = B
- 3 = D#
- #5 = F##
- Symbol
- Baug
- Root
- B
- Quality
- Augmented
- Family
- triad
- Notes
- B D# F##
- Degree formula
1 3 #5- Semitones from the root
0 4 8- Distinct pitch classes
- 3
- Interval structure
- Stacked from the root: 4 semitones, 4 semitones
- Notation
- Written aug or with a plus sign, for example Caug or C+.
- Key
- B · B major / G# minor key signature
Formula
The chord tones in order from the root, with the interval each one forms above it.
| Degree | Note | Semitones | Interval from the root |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | B | 0 | Perfect unison |
| 3 | D# | 4 | Major third |
| #5 | F## | 8 | Minor sixth |
Inversions
An inversion is the same set of notes with a different one in the bass. The last column gives the distance of each note above the bass note, in semitones.
| Inversion | Bass note | Degree in the bass | Notes above the bass | Semitones above the bass |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| root position | B | 1 | B – D# – F## | 0 4 8 |
| first inversion | D# | 3 | D# – F## – B | 0 4 8 |
| second inversion | F## | #5 | F## – B – D# | 0 4 8 |
Playable voicings
These shapes were found by searching the fretboard of a standard-tuned guitar (E A D G B E) rather than copied from a chord book. The search allows every string to sound or to be muted, rejects any shape with a muted string between two sounding strings, rejects any shape whose fretted notes span more than four frets (a five-fret window), requires every chord tone to be present, and then sorts what remains with root-position shapes first and the most compact, lowest shapes next. The shapes shown are the first six of that ordering; other orderings are possible at the same frets.
| # | Shape (low string first) | Notes | Degrees | Bass | Span (frets) | Sounding strings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7-6-5-4-4-7 | B D# G B D# B | 1 3 #5 1 3 1 | B | 3 | 6 |
| 2 | 7-6-5-8-8-7 | B D# G D# G B | 1 3 #5 3 #5 1 | B | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | 7-6-9-8-8-7 | B D# B D# G B | 1 3 1 3 #5 1 | B | 3 | 6 |
| 4 | 7-10-9-8-8-7 | B G B D# G B | 1 #5 1 3 #5 1 | B | 3 | 6 |
| 5 | 7-6-5-4-4-3 | B D# G B D# G | 1 3 #5 1 3 #5 | B | 4 | 6 |
| 6 | 7-6-5-4-8-7 | B D# G B G B | 1 3 #5 1 #5 1 | B | 4 | 6 |
Shape numbers run from the lowest string to the highest, so the left-hand number is the sixth string (low E) in standard tuning. Multiple shapes are listed because a chord can be voiced several ways, and because a lower position is not always the better sounding one.
Related chords and scales
- KeyEverything in B
- ScaleB whole tone
- ChordEbaug
- ChordGaug
Related
- KeyKey of B
- ScaleB whole tone
- ChordEbaug — Augmented
- ChordGaug — Augmented
- ChordBdim — Diminished
- ChordB — Major
- ChordBm — Minor
- DegreesB — degree map