AmMaj9 guitar chord
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About AmMaj9 — drop 2 voicings
AmMaj9 is A, C, E, G# and B. It keeps every note of and adds the .
AmMaj9 and both contain the 9th. The difference is the 7th: AmMaj9 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 AmM9, Am(maj9) or A-Δ9.
What is drop 2
Stack the four notes closely, then drop the second voice from the top an octave. It typically lands on four adjacent strings: the guitar’s workhorse voicing.
That result, 5–R–3–7, is the shape usually meant by drop 2. Named by its bass note, as the inversions are here, it is the 2nd inversion.
How to use AmMaj9
How you get to it. The turn that lands on AmMaj9 is to : the ii and the V of A minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.
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What to play over AmMaj9
Useful scales
- +DF
Contains AmMaj9 and adds eleventh and flat thirteenth.
- +DF#
Contains AmMaj9 and adds eleventh and thirteenth.
Chords near AmMaj9
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The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.