Emaj9

E1G♯3B5D♯7F♯9

A major seventh with a ninth on top.

on ukulele on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

021102

moderate

Fig. 3

024140

moderate

Fig. 4

064404

moderate

Fig. 5

066470

moderate

Fig. 6

02414x

hard

What is true of it

Emaj9 is E, G♯, B, D♯ and F♯ — 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 counted from E.

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 021102: 4 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.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

Emaj9/G♯

464400

second inversion

Emaj9/B

x21102

third inversion

Emaj9/D♯

xx1102

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.

E in other shapes

Eadd9added ninth E9dominant ninth Em9minor ninth Emajor Emminor Edimdiminished

Cmaj9 C♯maj9 D♭maj9 Dmaj9 D♯maj9 E♭maj9 Fmaj9 F♯maj9 all 374