Cadd9 chord on guitar
C add9
Cadd9 is an add9 chord with four notes: C, E, G and D. 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
- Middle on the D string, fret 2
- Ring on the A string, fret 3
- Pinky on the B string, fret 3
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
- Threemiddle, ring and pinky
- Strings played
- FiveA, D, G, B and high e
- Open strings
- Twothe G and high e strings
- Lowest note
- C3the root, on the A string
- Frets
- x 3 2 0 3 0low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Cadd9
- Croot
- Emajor third
- Gperfect fifth
- Dmajor ninth
An add9 chord is a major chord with the ninth added: the second note of the scale, an octave up. E is the major third, four frets above the root. G is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root. D is the major ninth, two frets above the root, an octave up.
String by string
- high e string: E4major third
- B string: D4major ninth
- G string: G3perfect fifth
- D string: E3major third
- A string: C3root
- low E string: not played
Every note of Cadd9 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- At fret 8x x 10 9 8 10Root on the D string.
Songs in Lark with Cadd9
Two songs in the library strum Cadd9. Open one for the full chord sheet, then play it with Lark and every chord gets checked.
Related chords
All 111 chords in the chartStrum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Cadd9 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.