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Fig. 1 · Dmaj9 · easy

ukulele chord

Dmaj9

D1F♯3A5C♯7E9

A major seventh with a ninth on top.

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Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

7604

easy · no 5

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Fig. 3

7697

hard · no 5

What is true of it

Dmaj9 is D, F♯, A, C♯ and E — 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 counted from D.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 5, the 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

The easiest of the 2 fingerings below is 7604: 3 fingers, 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.

It leaves out the 5. 4 strings cannot carry 5 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 4 — 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

first inversion

Dmaj9/F♯

x604

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second inversion

Dmaj9/A

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third inversion

Dmaj9/C♯

6604

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

Dadd9added ninthD9dominant ninthDm9minor ninthDmajorDmminorDdimdiminished

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