D# maj7#11 — Puerto Rican Cuatro (Antiguo A-D-G-C-F)

D# maj7#11 stacks D# – F## – G## – A# – C##. Every chart below sets those tones on A-D-G-C-F and names the fret and finger holding each one — tap a chart to hear it.

Ten strings in five doubled courses is a lot of instrument for a chord, and the doubling is the point: each course answers twice, so a grip rings like a small twelve-string and carries over a room. The Puerto Rican instrument is a lead voice first — a cuatrista states the tune with a pick and drops the full grip in between phrases, which is why these charts name the fret and finger for every course rather than only the shape.

Every adjacent pair on A-D-G-C-F climbs, so the open strings run straight from bottom to top across a minor thirteenth.

Learn the grip and the melody position together. Find the highest string's tone first, because that is the one an audience hears as the tune, then fill the rest in underneath it and check that both strings of every course speak cleanly.