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Fig. 1 · F#9 · hard

guitar chord

F♯9

F♯1A♯3C♯5E♭7G♯9

A dominant seventh carrying a ninth on top.

Written the other way round it is G♭9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

2
Fig. 2

242324

hard · barre

Fig. 3

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hard · no 5

3
Fig. 4

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hard · no 5

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Fig. 5

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hard · no 5

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Fig. 6

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hard · no 5

What is true of it

F♯9 is F♯, A♯, C♯, E and G♯ — 1, 3, 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 242324: 4 fingers, one of them barring the 2nd fret, held at the 2nd 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 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

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first inversion

F♯9/A♯

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second inversion

F♯9/C♯

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third inversion

F♯9/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

F♯add9added ninthF♯maj9major ninthF♯m9minor ninthF♯majorF♯mminorF♯dimdiminished

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