Guitar chords · Add 9
Fadd9 chord on guitar
Fadd9 (F add 9) has four notes: F, A, C and G, the The note a chord is named after and built up from. C is the root of C, Cm and C7., 3, 5 and 9.
Shapes
How to play Fadd9
Strum a shape to hear it, or pick it one string at a time. R marks the The note a chord is named after and built up from. C is the root of C, Cm and C7.; the other numbers are the chord tones.
Fadd9 has an A chord played near the nut that uses some unfretted strings, such as the open G, C or Em., and one A chord or scale fingering with no open strings. Slide it up or down the neck and it changes its root but not its type: a major shape stays major.: the A shape at The metal strips across the neck, and the spaces between them. Each fret raises a string by one half step. 8. A movable shape keeps its fingering anywhere on the neck: slide it up or down and the The note a chord is named after and built up from. C is the root of C, Cm and C7., on the lowest played string, names the chord.
Open
A shape · fret 8
Notes and formula
What makes Fadd9 add 9
An add9 chord is a major chord with the 9th (the 2nd, an The distance of twelve half steps, where a note comes round to the same name. Twelve frets up a string is an octave. up) added on top. Unlike a sus2, it keeps its 3rd, so it still sounds major, just brighter and more open.
- 1Root: the note the chord is named after. Keep it.
- 3Essential: makes the chord what it is. Never drop it.
- 5Optional: drop it first when you run out of fingers.
The 3rd and the 9th make Fadd9 an add 9 chord; you can leave out the 5th.
- FRroot
- A3essential
- C5optional
- G9essential
- F, the root
- Other chord tones
Keys
Keys with Fadd9
Fadd9 belongs to six keys: C major (IVadd9), B♭ major (Vadd9), F major (Iadd9), A minor (VIadd9), G minor (VIIadd9) and D minor (IIIadd9).
Numerals follow the key's own scale, so III, VI and VII in a minor key are its own major chords. A ♭ or ♯ in front marks a chord from outside the key. How Roman numerals work
Slash chords
Fadd9 over another bass note
A A chord with a different note in the bass, written after a slash: C/E is a C chord with E as its lowest note. The letter after the slash is the bass. keeps Fadd9 on top and puts another note in the bass: the letter after the slash is the lowest note you play.
- Fadd9/A
Fadd9 with its 3rd, A, in the bass.
- Fadd9/C
Fadd9 with its 5th, C, in the bass.
Same root
Other chords on F
Change one or two notes and the same The note a chord is named after and built up from. C is the root of C, Cm and C7. gives a different colour. Compare them by ear.
- F major
- Fm minor
- F7 dominant 7th
- Fmaj7 major 7th
- Fm7 minor 7th
- Fsus2 suspended 2nd
- Fsus4 suspended 4th
- F6 major 6th
- Fm6 minor 6th
- F9 dominant 9th
- Fmaj9 major 9th
- Fm9 minor 9th
- F13 dominant 13th
- Fmaj13 major 13th
- Fm11 minor 11th
- F° diminished
- Fm7♭5 half-diminished 7th
- F°7 diminished 7th
- F+ augmented
- F5 power chord
- F7sus4 dominant 7th suspended 4th
- Fm(maj7) minor major 7th
- F6/9 six-nine
- Fm(add9) minor add 9
- F7♯9 dominant 7th sharp 9th
Questions
Fadd9, in short
- What notes are in the Fadd9 chord?
- Fadd9 (F add 9) has four notes: F, A, C and G, the The note a chord is named after and built up from. C is the root of C, Cm and C7., 3, 5 and 9.
- How do you play Fadd9 on guitar?
- Fadd9 has an A chord played near the nut that uses some unfretted strings, such as the open G, C or Em., and one A chord or scale fingering with no open strings. Slide it up or down the neck and it changes its root but not its type: a major shape stays major.: the A shape at The metal strips across the neck, and the spaces between them. Each fret raises a string by one half step. 8.
- What key is Fadd9 in?
- Fadd9 belongs to six keys: C major (IVadd9), B♭ major (Vadd9), F major (Iadd9), A minor (VIadd9), G minor (VIIadd9) and D minor (IIIadd9).