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Fig. 1 · F#m9 · hard

ukulele chord

F♯m9

F♯1A♭3C♯5E♭7G♯9

A minor seventh with a ninth on top.

Written the other way round it is G♭m9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

F♯m9 is F♯, A, C♯, E and G♯ — 1, b3, 5, b7 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 b9cb: 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

F♯m9/A

2440

second inversion

F♯m9/C♯

6440

third inversion

F♯m9/E

x440

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♯add9added ninthF♯9dominant ninthF♯maj9major ninthF♯majorF♯mminorF♯dimdiminished

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