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Fig. 1 · A#add9 on the keyboard

piano chord

A♯add9

A♯1C𝄪3E♯5B♯9

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 B♭add9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on guitaron ukulelethe scale

What is true of it

A♯add9 is A♯, C𝄪, E♯ and B♯ — 1, 3, 5 and 9 counted from A♯.

C𝄪 is a double sharp, and it has to be: every letter from A♯ upwards is used once, so the 3 cannot be written any other way.

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

A♯ in other shapes

A♯9dominant ninthA♯maj9major ninthA♯m9minor ninthA♯majorA♯mminorA♯dimdiminished

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