Aadd9 chord on guitar
A add9
Aadd9 is an add9 chord with four notes: A, C#, E and B. Learn it first as an open shape: two open strings and three fingers on the frets. Below: where each finger goes, which strings to skip and one more way to play it.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right. The chord detector is free and listens through your mic.
How to play it
- Index on the D string, fret 2
- Middle on the B string, fret 2
- Ring on the G string, fret 4
The number in each note head is the finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Strings to skip
Skip the low E string and strum from the A string down.
- Shape
- Open shape
- Fingers
- Threeindex, middle and ring
- Strings played
- FiveA, D, G, B and high e
- Open strings
- Twothe A and high e strings
- Lowest note
- A2the root, on the A string
- Frets
- x 0 2 4 2 0low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Aadd9
- Aroot
- C#major third
- Eperfect fifth
- Bmajor ninth
An add9 chord is a major chord with the ninth added: the second note of the scale, an octave up. C# is the major third, four frets above the root. E is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root. B is the major ninth, two frets above the root, an octave up.
String by string
- high e string: E4perfect fifth
- B string: C#4major third
- G string: B3major ninth
- D string: E3perfect fifth
- A string: A2root
- low E string: not played
Every note of Aadd9 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- At fret 5x x 7 6 5 7Root on the D string.
Related chords
All 111 chords in the chartStrum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Aadd9 and Lark names the chord it hears, with the notes in it. In the app, the chord book has all 111 chords, string by string.