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Fig. 1 · A#maj9 on the keyboard

piano chord

A♯maj9

A♯1C𝄪3E♯5G𝄪7B♯9

A major seventh with a ninth on top.

Written the other way round it is B♭maj9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on guitaron ukulelethe scale

What is true of it

A♯maj9 is A♯, C𝄪, E♯, G𝄪 and B♯ — 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 counted from A♯.

C𝄪 and G𝄪 are double sharps, and they have 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 5, the 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

A♯ in other shapes

A♯add9added ninthA♯9dominant ninthA♯m9minor ninthA♯majorA♯mminorA♯dimdiminished

Cmaj9C♯maj9D♭maj9Dmaj9D♯maj9E♭maj9Emaj9Fmaj9all 374