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Fig. 1 · Bbadd9 · moderate

ukulele chord

B♭add9

B♭1D3F5C9

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 A♯add9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on guitaron pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

3213

moderate

Fig. 3

3065

easy · no 5

What is true of it

B♭add9 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 2 fingerings below is 3213: 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

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Fig. 4 — 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

7
first inversion

B♭add9/D

7a88

5
third inversion

B♭add9/C

5565

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

B♭9dominant ninthB♭maj9major ninthB♭m9minor ninthB♭majorB♭mminorB♭dimdiminished

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