Guitar chords · Add 9
Gadd9 chord on guitar
Gadd9 (G add 9) has four notes: G, B, D and A, 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 Gadd9
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.
Gadd9 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. 10. 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 10
Notes and formula
What makes Gadd9 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 Gadd9 an add 9 chord; you can leave out the 5th.
- GRroot
- B3essential
- D5optional
- A9essential
- G, the root
- Other chord tones
Keys
Keys with Gadd9
Gadd9 belongs to six keys: C major (Vadd9), G major (Iadd9), D major (IVadd9), A minor (VIIadd9), E minor (IIIadd9) and B minor (VIadd9).
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
Gadd9 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 Gadd9 on top and puts another note in the bass: the letter after the slash is the lowest note you play.
- Gadd9/B
Gadd9 with its 3rd, B, in the bass.
- Gadd9/D
Gadd9 with its 5th, D, in the bass.
Same root
Other chords on G
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.
- G major
- Gm minor
- G7 dominant 7th
- Gmaj7 major 7th
- Gm7 minor 7th
- Gsus2 suspended 2nd
- Gsus4 suspended 4th
- G6 major 6th
- Gm6 minor 6th
- G9 dominant 9th
- Gmaj9 major 9th
- Gm9 minor 9th
- G13 dominant 13th
- Gmaj13 major 13th
- Gm11 minor 11th
- G° diminished
- Gm7♭5 half-diminished 7th
- G°7 diminished 7th
- G+ augmented
- G5 power chord
- G7sus4 dominant 7th suspended 4th
- Gm(maj7) minor major 7th
- G6/9 six-nine
- Gm(add9) minor add 9
- G7♯9 dominant 7th sharp 9th
Questions
Gadd9, in short
- What notes are in the Gadd9 chord?
- Gadd9 (G add 9) has four notes: G, B, D and A, 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 Gadd9 on guitar?
- Gadd9 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. 10.
- What key is Gadd9 in?
- Gadd9 belongs to six keys: C major (Vadd9), G major (Iadd9), D major (IVadd9), A minor (VIIadd9), E minor (IIIadd9) and B minor (VIadd9).