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Fig. 1 · G#maj9 on the keyboard

piano chord

G♯maj9

G♯1B♯3D♯5F𝄪7A♯9

A major seventh with a ninth on top.

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

on guitaron ukulelethe scale

What is true of it

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

F𝄪 is a double sharp, and it has to be: every letter from G♯ upwards is used once, so the 7 cannot be written any other way.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 5, the 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

G♯ in other shapes

G♯add9added ninthG♯9dominant ninthG♯m9minor ninthG♯majorG♯mminorG♯dimdiminished

Cmaj9C♯maj9D♭maj9Dmaj9D♯maj9E♭maj9Emaj9Fmaj9all 374