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Fig. 1 · C#add9 on the keyboard

piano chord

C♯add9

C♯1E♯3G♯5D♯9

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

Written the other way round it is D♭add9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on guitaron ukulelethe scale

What is true of it

C♯add9 is C♯, E♯, G♯ and D♯ — 1, 3, 5 and 9 counted from C♯.

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

C♯ in other shapes

C♯9dominant ninthC♯maj9major ninthC♯m9minor ninthC♯majorC♯mminorC♯dimdiminished

Cadd9Dadd9D♯add9E♭add9Eadd9Fadd9F♯add9G♭add9all 374