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Fig. 1 · Fmaj9 · hard

ukulele chord

Fmaj9

F1A3C5E7G9

A major seventh with a ninth on top.

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What is true of it

Fmaj9 is F, A, C, E and G — 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 counted from F.

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 a9ca: 4 fingers, held at the 9th 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 F, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

Fmaj9/A

2430

second inversion

Fmaj9/C

5430

third inversion

Fmaj9/E

x430

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.

F in other shapes

Fadd9added ninthF9dominant ninthFm9minor ninthFmajorFmminorFdimdiminished

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