Guitar chords · Add 9
Cadd9 chord on guitar
Cadd9 (C add 9) has four notes: C, E, G and D, 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 Cadd9
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.
Cadd9 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. 3. 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 3
Notes and formula
What makes Cadd9 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 Cadd9 an add 9 chord; you can leave out the 5th.
- CRroot
- E3essential
- G5optional
- D9essential
- C, the root
- Other chord tones
Keys
Keys with Cadd9
Cadd9 belongs to six keys: C major (Iadd9), G major (IVadd9), F major (Vadd9), A minor (IIIadd9), E minor (VIadd9) and D minor (VIIadd9).
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
Cadd9 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 Cadd9 on top and puts another note in the bass: the letter after the slash is the lowest note you play.
- Cadd9/E
Cadd9 with its 3rd, E, in the bass.
- Cadd9/G
Cadd9 with its 5th, G, in the bass.
Same root
Other chords on C
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.
- C major
- Cm minor
- C7 dominant 7th
- Cmaj7 major 7th
- Cm7 minor 7th
- Csus2 suspended 2nd
- Csus4 suspended 4th
- C6 major 6th
- Cm6 minor 6th
- C9 dominant 9th
- Cmaj9 major 9th
- Cm9 minor 9th
- C13 dominant 13th
- Cmaj13 major 13th
- Cm11 minor 11th
- C° diminished
- Cm7♭5 half-diminished 7th
- C°7 diminished 7th
- C+ augmented
- C5 power chord
- C7sus4 dominant 7th suspended 4th
- Cm(maj7) minor major 7th
- C6/9 six-nine
- Cm(add9) minor add 9
- C7♯9 dominant 7th sharp 9th
Questions
Cadd9, in short
- What notes are in the Cadd9 chord?
- Cadd9 (C add 9) has four notes: C, E, G and D, 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 Cadd9 on guitar?
- Cadd9 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. 3.
- What key is Cadd9 in?
- Cadd9 belongs to six keys: C major (Iadd9), G major (IVadd9), F major (Vadd9), A minor (IIIadd9), E minor (VIadd9) and D minor (VIIadd9).