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Daug Guitar Chord

A mysterious, dreamlike sound with a raised fifth. Used as a chromatic passing chord, often in progressive rock, film music and Beatles-style progressions.

Guitar

Strings X–X–0–3–3–2

How to play the Daug chord on guitar

Read the string pattern X–X–0–3–3–2 from the low E string to the high E string. Numbers in the pattern are frets; numbers in the colored dots are left-hand fingers. X means a muted string and 0 means an open string.

6th string (low E) Muted
5th string (A) Muted
4th string (D) Open
3rd string (G) Fret 3 · middle finger
2nd string (B) Fret 3 · ring finger
1st string (high E) Fret 2 · index finger

Other names for the Daug chord

Other names: D augmented, D+

Music theory name: augmented triad

Common name: D augmented chord

Notes and intervals in the Daug chord

Note Interval
D Root
F# Major 3rd
A# Augmented 5th

All variations

Open
X–X–0–3–3–2
Fret 3
X–5–4–3–3–X
Fret 7
10–9–8–7–7–X
Fret 10
10–X–12–11–11–X

Songs using Daug