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Fig. 1 · A#9 · easy

ukulele chord

A♯9

A♯1C𝄪3E♯5G♯♭7B♯9

A dominant seventh carrying a ninth on top.

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

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Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

3045

easy · no 5

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Fig. 3

3243

hard · no 5

What is true of it

A♯9 is A♯, C𝄪, E♯, G♯ and B♯ — 1, 3, 5, b7 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 5, the 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

The easiest of the 2 fingerings below is 3045: 3 fingers, held at the 3rd 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.

It leaves out the 5. 4 strings cannot carry 5 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 4 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are A♯, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

A♯9/C𝄪

7045

10
second inversion

A♯9/E♯

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third inversion

A♯9/G♯

1213

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.

A♯ in other shapes

A♯add9added ninthA♯maj9major ninthA♯m9minor ninthA♯majorA♯mminorA♯dimdiminished

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