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Fig. 1 · G#maj9 · open

ukulele chord

G♯maj9

G♯1B♯3D♯5F𝄪7A♯9

A major seventh with a ninth on top.

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

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What is true of it

G♯maj9 is G♯, B♯, D♯, F𝄪 and A♯ — 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 counted from G♯.

F𝄪 is a double sharp, and it has to be: every letter from G♯ upwards is used once, so the 7 cannot be written any other way.

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 1031: 3 fingers, held at the 1st fret.

All of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.

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 G♯, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

G♯maj9/B♯

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second inversion

G♯maj9/D♯

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third inversion

G♯maj9/F𝄪

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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♯m9minor ninthG♯majorG♯mminorG♯dimdiminished

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