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Fig. 1 · Dadd9 · moderate

ukulele chord

Dadd9

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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

Dadd9 is D, F♯, A and E — 1, 3, 5 and 9 counted from D.

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

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 7657: 4 fingers, held at the 5th 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 D, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

2
second inversion

Dadd9/A

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9
third inversion

Dadd9/E

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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.

D in other shapes

D9dominant ninthDmaj9major ninthDm9minor ninthDmajorDmminorDdimdiminished

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