E♭add9

E♭1G3B♭5F9

A major triad with a ninth added and no seventh — which is what tells it apart from a ninth chord.

Written the other way round it is D♯add9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukulele on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x63046

hard

Fig. 3

x63066

hard

Fig. 4

xx1041

easy · no 5

Fig. 5

x63043

hard · no 5

Fig. 6

x63063

hard · no 5

What is true of it

E♭add9 is E♭, G, B♭ and F — 1, 3, 5 and 9 counted from E♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x63046: 4 fingers, held at the 3rd 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.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

E♭add9/G

31304x

second inversion

E♭add9/B♭

x11041

third inversion

E♭add9/F

1110xx

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.

E♭ in other shapes

E♭9dominant ninth E♭maj9major ninth E♭m9minor ninth E♭major E♭mminor E♭dimdiminished

Cadd9 C♯add9 D♭add9 Dadd9 Eadd9 Fadd9 F♯add9 G♭add9 all 374