FCEbAbCG
Fig. 1 · Fm9 · moderate

guitar chord

Fm9

F1A♭♭3C5E♭♭7G9

A minor seventh with a ninth on top.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

131113

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

131044

hard · barre

Fig. 4

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easy · no 5

Fig. 5

131143

hard · barre

Fig. 6

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hard · no 5

What is true of it

Fm9 is F, A♭, C, E♭ and G — 1, b3, 5, b7 and 9 counted from F.

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 131113: 3 fingers, one of them barring the 1st fret, held at the 1st 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.

3 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 F, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

Fm9/A♭

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second inversion

Fm9/C

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third inversion

Fm9/E♭

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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.

F in other shapes

Fadd9added ninthF9dominant ninthFmaj9major ninthFmajorFmminorFdimdiminished

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