A minor 9 guitar chord harmonics

Continuing our occasional series of playing guitar chords with natural harmonics, today's Guitar Chord of the Day is A minor 9.
Mixing fretted notes and guitar harmonics is a great way to add some more tonal color to your guitar chords.
Minor 9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5, b7, 9
A minor 9 uses the notes: A, C, E, G, B


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F minor add9

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is F minor add9.

Minor add9 chords can be played in place of most minor chords and are a great way to add interest to regular minor chords. Minor add9 chords can also be written as m /9 so Fm add9, F minor add9 and Fm/9 all refer to the same guitar chord.

Check out some of the other minor add9 guitar chords from previous posts and remember you can use the labels on the right to explore lots of different guitar chord types.
Minor add9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5, 9
Fm/9 uses the notes: F, A, C, G and our inversion uses the notes in this order.

This chord does involve a stretch due to the close voicing - but nothing a bit of practice won't solve!

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E minor11 guitar chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is E minor11 or Em11.  This chord is down in open position and works as a nice variation on a regular Em chord.
We've played a few other minor11 guitar chords here.

Minor11 chords can be played in the place of most minor chords and can replace chords ii, iii and vi in major keys.
Minor 11th chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5, b7, 9, 11
Em11 uses these notes E, G, B, D, F#, A
Our guitar chord of the day uses the notes in this order:
E minor11 guitar chord E, B, F#, G, D, A

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A minor 9 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is A minor 9. Minor 9 guitar chords can be played in place of most minor chords.

We've played alternative inversions of this guitar chord here.

Minor 9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5, b7, 9
A minor 9 uses the notes: A, C, E, G, B - today's guitar chord uses the notes in this order.

It can replace ii, iii and vi chords in major keys.

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E minor add9

Learning new guitar chords is a great way to come up with new song ideas and to spice up regular rhythm playing. Following on from yesterday's Am add9 inversion, today's Guitar Chord of the Day is E minor add9. Although in this diagram the guitar's E strings are muted to allow for transposing the chord to other keys, you can include them for an Em/9 (Em add9 can also be written as Em/9).
Minor add9 chords can be played in place of most minor chords and are a great way to add interest to regular chord progressions.
Check out some of the other minor add9 guitar chords from previous posts and remember you can use the labels on the right to explore lots of different guitar chord types.

Minor add9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5, 9
E minor add9 uses the notes: E, G, B, F# and our inversion uses the notes in this order.

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A minor add9 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is A minor add9. This guitar chord is simply to play: just two fingers needed, but is a great sound variation on a regular Am guitar chord.
Add 9 chords can also be written /9 (Ted Greene is a fan of writing add9 chords this way). So today's chord can also be written as Am/9.

Minor add9 chords can be played in place of most minor chords. It can replace chords ii, vi and iii in major keys (although using it instead of chord 3 introduces a non-scale note it still sounds good).

Minor add9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5, 9
A minor add9 uses the notes: A, C, E, B
Our inversion uses the notes in this order: A, E, C, B, E

We've featured an alternative inversion of this guitar chord here: C minor add9

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C minor 9 Guitar Chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is C Minor 9. This guitar chord can be played in the place of most minor chords. It can be a bit of a stretch in some positions, but it's a great sounding chord to play so well worth stretching those fretting fingers for.
We've featured an alternative inversion of this guitar chord here.

Minor 9 chords can be played in place of minor 7th chords, and almost always in place of minor chords. It can replace II, III and VI chords in major keys.

Minor 9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5, b7, 9
C minor 9 uses the notes: C, Eb, G, Bb, D
Our inversion uses the notes in this order: Bb, D, Eb, C

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D minor 13

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is D minor 13. This chord sounds nice and is great practice for the left hand as it involves quite a stretch. If the stretch is a little too much to start with, play the chord higher up the neck of the guitar and move the chord lower down the fretboard as you get more used to the stretch.

Minor 13 chords are usually played as chord i in minor keys, can also be played as chord ii though do experiment substituting this chord for other minor chords to add some harmonic interest.

Minor 13 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5, b7, 9, 11, 13

D minor 13 uses the notes: D, F, A, C, E, G, B

Our guitar inversion uses the notes in this order: D, F, B, C, E, A

To solo over this chord, try the D dorian mode, the D blues scale or the D melodic minor scale for added harmonic tension.

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Em7 / G6

Two guitar chords for the price of one! Today's guitar chord is Em7, this has exactly the same notes in as G6. The Em7 chord has its root note on the B string of the guitar:

This guitar chord can be created by modifying some of the 4 string Dominant 7th Guitar Chords we looked at in previous posts.

To create a minor7 chord from a Dominant 7th chord, lower the 3rd of the chord one fret. Comparing the minor 7 chord above with this Dominant 7th inversion you can see we've changed only one note.

As this guitar chord can also be thought of as a Major 6th chord, we can also easily change 7th chords into a 6th chord by lowering the 7th one fret. Compare the above inversion with this G7 guitar chord and you can see that again only note has changed.

Minor 7 chords use these scale degrees: 1, b3, 5, b7
E minor 7 uses the notes: E, G, B D
Minor7 chords can be played in place of most minor chords and as chords ii, ii and vi in major keys

Major 6 chords use the scale degrees: 1, 3, 5, 6
G6 uses the notes: G, B, D, E
Major 6 chords can be played in place of almost all major chords and as chords I, IV and V in major keys.

As you can see the notes of G6 and Em7 are the same, this means we're learning two guitar chords for the price of one. There are lots of guitar chords like this that can be used in multiple situations. In future posts we'll look at these chord synonyms in much more detail.

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C minor11

We've previously looked at a nice sounding minor 11 chord with it's root on the E string.Today we'll play a very common minor 11 inversion with it's root on the A string.
This chord is quite easy to play barring across 5 strings with your 1st finger and holding down the B string with your middle finger. This is a common inversion and was used in the famous Miles Davis track 'So What' from 'Kind of Blue' - this song used a bass riff followed by Em11 and Dm11.

Minor11 chords can be played in the place of most minor chords and can replace chord ii, iii and vi in major keys. Minor 11th chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5, b7, 9, 11 it's very common to leave some notes out - our inversion is missing the 5th and 9th.

Cm11 uses the notes: C, Eb, G, Bb, D, F

Our inversion uses the notes in this order: C, F, Bb, Eb, G

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G sus2

Hendrix Chords

The next chord in our Jimi Hendrix chords mini series at Guitar Chord of the Day is a sus2 chord. Jimi used this chord lots, you can here it being slide up and down the fretboard at the beginning and end of Castles Made of Sand from his second album Axis: Bold As Love released in 1967, it's also used in Little Wing and many other Jimi songs.

This chord demonstrates another common technique that Jimi used: fretting notes with his thumb, as you can see in the photo at the top of the page.

Sus2 chords have no 3rd in them (the sus stands for suspended), they're neither major nor minor though Jimi usually used them in place of major chords. Because they're neither major or minor they can often be played instead of either.

Sus2 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 2, 5

G sus2 uses the notes: G, A, D

Our inversion uses the notes in this order: G, G, D, A

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B minor11

Today's guitar chord of the day is a nice minor11 inversion.
This chord is moveable and has its root note on the E string (indicated by the black box in the chord diagram).
This chord can be played in the place of most minor chords and can replace chord ii, iii and vi in major keys. Minor 11th chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5, b7, 9, 11 though it's really common to leave some notes out - our inversion is missing the 5th and 9th.

Bm11 uses the notes: B, D, F#, A C#, E

Our inversion uses the notes in this order: B, A, D, E, A

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C minor add9

Today's guitar chord of the day can be substituted for almost any minor chord. As the name suggests, it's an ordinary minor chord with an added 9th.

This chord is moveable and has its root note on the E string (indicated by the black box in the chord diagram). This chord is fingered by barring across all 6 strings with your first finger.

Minor add9 chords can be played in place of minor chords. It can replace chords ii, vi and iii in major keys (although using it instead of chord 3 introduces a non-scale note it still sounds good).

Minor add9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5, 9

C minor add9 uses the notes: C, Eb, G, D

Our inversion uses the notes in this order: C, G, D, Eb, G, C

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F minor 9

Today's chord of the day is a very useful and nice sounding minor 9 chord. This guitar chord is moveable, the square on the A string indicates the root note. This guitar chord can be fingered in a couple of ways either:

• Barre across the G, B and E strings with you 3rd finger, or
  
• Use your 3rd finger on the G string and little finger on the B string, the top E string should then be muted or not played.
  

Minor 9 chords can be played in place of minor 7th chords, and almost always in place of minor chords. It can replace II, III and VI chords in major keys.

Minor 9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, b3, 5, b7, 9

F Minor 9 uses the notes: F, Ab, C, Eb, G

Our inversion uses the notes in this order: F, Ab, Eb, G, C

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