6BbFAbDbFC
Fig. 1 · Bbm9 · moderate

guitar chord

B♭m9

B♭1D♭♭3F5A♭♭7C9

A minor seventh with a ninth on top.

Written the other way round it is A♯m9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

6
Fig. 2

686668

moderate · barre

6
Fig. 3

686698

hard · barre

4
Fig. 4

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hard · no 5

3
Fig. 5

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hard · no 5

6
Fig. 6

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hard · no 5

What is true of it

B♭m9 is B♭, D♭, F, A♭ and C — 1, b3, 5, b7 and 9 counted from B♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 5, the 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 686668: 3 fingers, one of them barring the 6th fret, held at the 6th fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

2 of the 5 need a barre.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are B♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

B♭m9/D♭

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second inversion

B♭m9/F

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4
third inversion

B♭m9/A♭

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An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

B♭ in other shapes

B♭add9added ninthB♭9dominant ninthB♭maj9major ninthB♭majorB♭mminorB♭dimdiminished

Cm9C♯m9D♭m9Dm9D♯m9E♭m9Em9Fm9all 374