Fadd9 ukulele chord

Shimmering and modern. A plain major chord with a 9th added on top, keeping the third intact.

F added 9th · standard GCEA tuning · 3 shapes

How to Play Fadd9 on Ukulele

The easiest shape is 0010: G string open · C string open · E string 1st fret · A string open.

Fadd9 ukulele chord, Open position

Open position

0 0 1 0

Fadd9 ukulele chord, Up the neck, fret 33

Up the neck, fret 3

0 5 5 3

Fadd9 ukulele chord, Up the neck, fret 88

Up the neck, fret 8

0 9 8 8

Strings left to right are G, C, E and A, as the ukulele faces you. Numbers are frets; 0 means play the string open. Every shape is worked out from the notes the chord must contain and checked against them before it is published.

Notes in Fadd9

F
root
G
2nd
A
3rd
C
5th

A ukulele has four strings, so a 4-note chord uses every string for a different note — there is nothing left to double. Because the G string is tuned high (reentrant tuning), the lowest note you hear is usually on the C or E string, not the G.

Fadd9 on Other Instruments

  • Guitar: see the Fadd9 guitar chord — six strings, so the shapes are different, but the notes are the same.
  • Baritone ukulele (DGBE): 3213. A baritone is tuned like the top four strings of a guitar, so guitar shapes carry over and standard-ukulele shapes do not. Tune one with the baritone ukulele tuner.

Tune first

A right shape on an out-of-tune ukulele still sounds wrong. Check G, C, E and A in a few seconds.

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