G♯m9

G♯1B♭3D♯5F♯♭7A♯9

A minor seventh with a ninth on top.

Written the other way round it is A♭m9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukulele on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

464406

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

464446

moderate · barre

Fig. 4

42430x

hard · no 5

Fig. 5

46430x

hard

Fig. 6

41410x

hard · no 5

What is true of it

G♯m9 is G♯, B, D♯, F♯ and A♯ — 1, b3, 5, b7 and 9 counted from G♯.

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 464406: 3 fingers, one of them barring the 4th fret, 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.

2 of the 5 need a barre.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 7 — 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♯m9/B

x21302

second inversion

G♯m9/D♯

xx1302

third inversion

G♯m9/F♯

21110x

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 ninth G♯9dominant ninth G♯maj9major ninth G♯major G♯mminor G♯dimdiminished

Cm9 C♯m9 D♭m9 Dm9 D♯m9 E♭m9 Em9 Fm9 all 374