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Fig. 1 · Emaj9 · hard

ukulele chord

Emaj9

E1G♯3B5D♯7F♯9

A major seventh with a ninth on top.

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What is true of it

Emaj9 is E, G♯, B, D♯ and F♯ — 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 counted from E.

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 98b9: 4 fingers, held at the 8th 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 E, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

Emaj9/G♯

1322

4
second inversion

Emaj9/B

4646

7
third inversion

Emaj9/D♯

8879

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.

E in other shapes

Eadd9added ninthE9dominant ninthEm9minor ninthEmajorEmminorEdimdiminished

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