Guitar UpscaleMinor Major 9th Chord (mMaj9) on guitar
A minor major 9th chord adds the ninth to a minor major 7th chord, a dark and rich sound.
| Written as | CmMaj9 |
|---|---|
| Formula | 1 b3 5 7 9 |
| Notes in CmMaj9 | C Eb G B D |
| Semitones from the root | 0, 3, 7, 11, 14 |
About the Minor Major 9th Chord
AmMaj9 is A, C, E, G# and B.
It is the full chord on the root of melodic minor. Film composers use it for suspense.
Treat it like a mMaj7 chord with an extra colour note on top.
Intervals
- 1: Root, 0 semitones above the root
- b3: Minor 3rd, 3 semitones above the root
- 5: Perfect 5th, 7 semitones above the root
- 7: Major 7th, 11 semitones above the root
- 9: 9th, 14 semitones above the root
Minor Major 9th 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.
CmMaj9: C Eb G B D
GmMaj9: G Bb D F# A
DmMaj9: D F A C# E
AmMaj9: A C E G# B
EmMaj9: E G B D# F#
BmMaj9: B D F# A# C#
F#mMaj9: F# A C# E# G#
C#mMaj9: C# E G# B# D#
G#mMaj9: G# B D# G A#
EbmMaj9: Eb Gb Bb D F
BbmMaj9: Bb Db F A C
FmMaj9: F Ab C E G
Scales to play over CmMaj9
Each of these scales, started on the root of CmMaj9, holds every note of the chord:
- C Harmonic Minor scale
- C Harmonic Minor Bebop scale
- C Harmonic Minor Bebop with a Raised Fourth scale
- C Melodic Minor scale
- C Romanian Scale
- C Hungarian Minor scale
- C Algerian Scale
- C Nine Tone Scale
- C Lydian Diminished scale
- C Ten Tone Harmonic scale