Gadd9 ukulele chord

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

G added 9th · standard GCEA tuning · 3 shapes

How to Play Gadd9 on Ukulele

The easiest shape is 2232: G string 2nd fret · C string 2nd fret · E string 3rd fret · A string 2nd fret.

Gadd9 ukulele chord, Barre at fret 2

Barre at fret 2

2 2 3 2

Gadd9 ukulele chord, Barre at fret 77

Barre at fret 7

7 7 7 0

Gadd9 ukulele chord, Up the neck, fret 1010

Up the neck, fret 10

0 11 10 0

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 Gadd9

G
root
A
2nd
B
3rd
D
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.

Gadd9 on Other Instruments

  • Guitar: see the Gadd9 guitar chord — six strings, so the shapes are different, but the notes are the same.
  • Baritone ukulele (DGBE): 0203. 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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