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Fig. 1 · Badd9 · moderate

ukulele chord

Badd9

B1D♯3F♯5C♯9

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

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What is true of it

Badd9 is B, D♯, F♯ and C♯ — 1, 3, 5 and 9 counted from B.

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

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 4324: 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.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 3 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

8
first inversion

Badd9/D♯

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6
third inversion

Badd9/C♯

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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.

B in other shapes

B9dominant ninthBmaj9major ninthBm9minor ninthBmajorBmminorBdimdiminished

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