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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

ukulele chord

F♯maj9

F♯1A♯3C♯5E♯7G♯9

A major seventh with a ninth on top.

Written the other way round it is G♭maj9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

F♯maj9 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.

No fingering of F♯maj9 fits a hand on the ukulele: inside four frets, with the strings that sound next to each other and the root underneath, there is nothing to hold.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 2 — 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♯maj9/A♯

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6
second inversion

F♯maj9/C♯

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9
third inversion

F♯maj9/E♯

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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♯m9minor ninthF♯majorF♯mminorF♯dimdiminished

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