Guitar UpscaleMinor Add9 Chord (madd9) on guitar
A minor add9 chord adds the ninth to a minor triad, a sad, beautiful sound used in ballads.
| Written as | Cmadd9 |
|---|---|
| Formula | 1 b3 5 9 |
| Notes in C | C Eb G D |
| Semitones from the root | 0, 3, 7, 14 |
About the Minor Add9 Chord
Amadd9 is A, C, E and B.
The 9th sits a whole step above the root and a half step below the minor 3rd. That close cluster gives the chord its longing sound.
Use it in place of a plain minor chord in slow songs.
Intervals
- 1: Root, 0 semitones above the root
- b3: Minor 3rd, 3 semitones above the root
- 5: Perfect 5th, 7 semitones above the root
- 9: 9th, 14 semitones above the root
Minor Add9 Chord charts in all 12 keys
Each chart shows the strings from the thick low E on the left to the thin high e on the right. Numbers in the dots are fingers: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 little, T thumb. × marks a muted string and ○ an open one. A bar across strings is a barre.
Cmadd9: C Eb G D
Gmadd9: G Bb D A
Dmadd9: D F A E
Amadd9: A C E B
Emadd9: E G B F#
Bmadd9: B D F# C#
F#madd9: F# A C# G#
C#madd9: C# E G# D#
G#madd9: G# B D# A#
Ebmadd9: Eb Gb Bb F
Bbmadd9: Bb Db F C
Fmadd9: F Ab C G
Scales to play over Cmadd9
Each of these scales, started on C, holds every note of the chord:
- C Natural Minor (Aeolian)
- C Harmonic Minor
- C Harmonic Minor Bebop
- C Harmonic Minor Bebop with a Raised Fourth
- C Melodic Minor
- C Dorian Mode
- C Adonai Malakh
- C Kumoi Scale
- C Hirajoshi Scale
- C Romanian Scale
- C Romanian Minor (Ukrainian Dorian)
- C Hungarian Minor (Gypsy Minor)
- C Narayan Scale
- C Algerian Scale
- C Major Blues Scale
- C Bebop Minor (Bebop Dorian)
- C Nine Tone Scale
- C Lydian Diminished