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Fig. 1 · Gbadd9 · hard

ukulele chord

G♭add9

G♭1B♭3D♭5A♭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 F♯add9 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

G♭add9 is G♭, B♭, D♭ and A♭ — 1, 3, 5 and 9 counted from G♭.

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

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is ba9b: 4 fingers, held at the 9th 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 G♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

3
first inversion

G♭add9/B♭

3644

6
second inversion

G♭add9/D♭

6869

third inversion

G♭add9/A♭

1121

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.

G♭ in other shapes

G♭9dominant ninthG♭maj9major ninthG♭m9minor ninthG♭majorG♭mminorG♭dimdiminished

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