Badd9

B1D♯3F♯5C♯9

A major triad with a ninth added and no seventh — which is what tells it apart from a ninth chord.

on ukulele on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

76460x

hard

Fig. 3

7646xx

hard

Fig. 4

xx9879

hard

Fig. 5

x2142x

hard · no 5

Fig. 6

7696xx

hard · no 5

What is true of it

Badd9 is B, D♯, F♯ and C♯ — 1, 3, 5 and 9 counted from B.

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 76460x: 4 fingers, held at the 4th 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.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are B, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

Badd9/D♯

x6460x

second inversion

Badd9/F♯

24140x

third inversion

Badd9/C♯

x4444x

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.

B in other shapes

B9dominant ninth Bmaj9major ninth Bm9minor ninth Bmajor Bmminor Bdimdiminished

Cadd9 C♯add9 D♭add9 Dadd9 D♯add9 E♭add9 Eadd9 Fadd9 all 374