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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

ukulele chord

G♯m9

G♯1B♭3D♯5F♯♭7A♯9

A minor seventh with a ninth on top.

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

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What is true of it

G♯m9 is G♯, B, D♯, F♯ and A♯ — 1, b3, 5, b7 and 9 counted from G♯.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 5, the 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

No fingering of G♯m9 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 G♯, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

G♯m9/B

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second inversion

G♯m9/D♯

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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.

G♯ in other shapes

G♯add9added ninthG♯9dominant ninthG♯maj9major ninthG♯majorG♯mminorG♯dimdiminished

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