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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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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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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