FmMaj9 guitar chord

9th in bass · G in the bass
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About FmMaj9inversions voicings

FmMaj9 is F, Ab, C, E and G with the ninth added on top.

It sounds the same unease with more colour over it. The ninth softens the edge without resolving anything.

Minor tonic — melodic minor, extended.

Also written FmM9, Fm(maj9) or F-Δ9.

FmMaj9 inversions guitar chord diagram: F, Ab, C, E, G, played 333554
FmMaj9 inversions, 333554 — the shape above, as a picture.

What an inversion is

How to use FmMaj9

How you get to it. The turn that lands on FmMaj9 is to : the ii and the V of F minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.

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What to play over FmMaj9

Every note of FmMaj9 is in F harmonic minor and F melodic minor.

Each of those is a page: the scale across the neck, and the chords it harmonises into — which is where FmMaj9 sits in it. Every scale.

Chords near FmMaj9

Change one note of FmMaj9 and you have (the minor third becomes the major third), (the major seventh becomes the sixth), (the major seventh becomes the flat seventh), (drop the ninth), (add the eleventh) or (drop the major seventh).

FmMaj9 is a minor chord — root, minor third, fifth. Minor chords on every root.

The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.

Midi Settings

7.5
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Layout

Left Handed Mode