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Fig. 1 · F#add9 · hard

ukulele chord

F♯add9

F♯1A♯3C♯5G♯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 G♭add9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

F♯add9 is F♯, A♯, C♯ and G♯ — 1, 3, 5 and 9 counted from F♯.

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

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is ba9b: 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.

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

3
first inversion

F♯add9/A♯

3644

6
second inversion

F♯add9/C♯

6869

third inversion

F♯add9/G♯

1121

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

F♯9dominant ninthF♯maj9major ninthF♯m9minor ninthF♯majorF♯mminorF♯dimdiminished

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