Fiddle Plays D 9b5

D 9b5 spells D – E – F# – G# – C. A chord chart tells you that much and stops; an arrangement asks what happens to it once the song is actually playing, which is the question this page answers.

The fiddle chair carries pads under the verse and the turnaround answer between vocal lines. A chord on a bowed instrument is really a choice of double stops — two strings at a time, drawn from these tones — plus the arpeggio the bow can walk through the rest of them.

The diagrams below mark stopping points on the GDAE fingerboard, not frets — there are none. Treat each dot as a place your finger has to find by ear, and use the playback to check that it did.