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Fig. 1 · C#add9 · moderate

ukulele chord

C♯add9

C♯1E♯3G♯5D♯9

A major triad with a ninth added and no seventh — which is what tells it apart from a ninth chord.

Written the other way round it is D♭add9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

C♯add9 is C♯, E♯, G♯ and D♯ — 1, 3, 5 and 9 counted from C♯.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 6546: 4 fingers, held at the 4th 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.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 3 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

second inversion

C♯add9/G♯

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third inversion

C♯add9/D♯

8898

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.

C♯ in other shapes

C♯9dominant ninthC♯maj9major ninthC♯m9minor ninthC♯majorC♯mminorC♯dimdiminished

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