F#mMaj9 guitar chord
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About F#mMaj9 — 3rd inversion
F#mMaj9 is F#, A, C#, E# and G#. It keeps every note of and adds the .
F#mMaj9 and both contain the 9th. The difference is the 7th: F#mMaj9 uses , while uses the flat 7th.
Choose between them by the seventh under a held 9th. The minor 3rd remains in both chords.
Also written F#mM9, F#m(maj9) or F#-Δ9.
What 3rd inversion means
F#mMaj9 in 3rd inversion puts E# in the bass instead of F#, the 7th of the chord. The notes are the same; what changes is what the bass line does, which is most of why you would reach for it — it lets the lowest voice move by step where the root would have jumped.
One of F#mMaj9’s 8 shapes does this:xx3224
How to use F#mMaj9
How you get to it. The turn that lands on F#mMaj9 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 F#mMaj9
Useful scales
- +BD
Contains F#mMaj9 and adds eleventh and flat thirteenth.
- +BD#
Contains F#mMaj9 and adds eleventh and thirteenth.
Chords near F#mMaj9
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