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Fig. 1 · G#add9 · easy

ukulele chord

G♯add9

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

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What is true of it

G♯add9 is G♯, B♯, D♯ and A♯ — 1, 3, 5 and 9 counted from G♯.

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

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 1041: 3 fingers, held at the 1st 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 4 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 G♯, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

G♯add9/B♯

x041

8
second inversion

G♯add9/D♯

8a8b

third inversion

G♯add9/A♯

3043

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.

G♯ in other shapes

G♯9dominant ninthG♯maj9major ninthG♯m9minor ninthG♯majorG♯mminorG♯dimdiminished

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