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Fig. 1 · Bb9 · easy

ukulele chord

B♭9

B♭1D3F5A♭♭7C9

A dominant seventh carrying a ninth on top.

Written the other way round it is A♯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

B♭9 is B♭, D, F, A♭ and C — 1, 3, 5, b7 and 9 counted from B♭.

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 B♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

B♭9/D

7045

10
second inversion

B♭9/F

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third inversion

B♭9/A♭

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.

B♭ in other shapes

B♭add9added ninthB♭maj9major ninthB♭m9minor ninthB♭majorB♭mminorB♭dimdiminished

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