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Fig. 1 · Bm9 · hard

ukulele chord

Bm9

B1D♭3F♯5A♭7C♯9

A minor seventh with a ninth on top.

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What is true of it

Bm9 is B, D, F♯, A and C♯ — 1, b3, 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 1 fingering below is 4254: 4 fingers, held at the 2nd 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. 3 — 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

4
first inversion

Bm9/D

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2
third inversion

Bm9/A

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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

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