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Fig. 1 · F9 · moderate

guitar chord

F9

F1A3C5E♭♭7G9

A dominant seventh carrying a ninth on top.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

101011

moderate

Fig. 3

10101x

open

Fig. 4

1010xx

open · no 5

Fig. 5

101013

moderate

Fig. 6

101041

moderate · no 5

What is true of it

F9 is F, A, C, E♭ and G — 1, 3, 5, b7 and 9 counted from F.

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 101011: 4 fingers, held at the 1st fret.

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

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

F9/A

x01011

second inversion

F9/C

x33045

third inversion

F9/E♭

x63045

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.

F in other shapes

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