Dadd9

D1F♯3A5E9

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

x50252

hard

Fig. 3

x54230

hard

Fig. 4

x54250

hard

Fig. 5

xx0252

easy

Fig. 6

x54750

hard · no 5

What is true of it

Dadd9 is D, F♯, A and E — 1, 3, 5 and 9 counted from D.

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x50252: 4 fingers, held at the 2nd 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 D, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

Dadd9/F♯

200230

second inversion

Dadd9/A

x04230

third inversion

Dadd9/E

000232

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.

D in other shapes

D9dominant ninth Dmaj9major ninth Dm9minor ninth Dmajor Dmminor Ddimdiminished

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