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Fig. 1 · D#maj9 on the keyboard

piano chord

D♯maj9

D♯1F𝄪3A♯5C𝄪7E♯9

A major seventh with a ninth on top.

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

on guitaron ukulelethe scale

What is true of it

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

F𝄪 and C𝄪 are double sharps, and they have to be: every letter from D♯ 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.

D♯ in other shapes

D♯add9added ninthD♯9dominant ninthD♯m9minor ninthD♯majorD♯mminorD♯dimdiminished

Cmaj9C♯maj9D♭maj9Dmaj9Emaj9Fmaj9F♯maj9G♭maj9all 374