A 9 Chord on Guitalele
Play A 9 on Guitalele: diagrams, finger positions, intervals, and every voicing up and down the neck for this instrument.
The A 9 chord is an extended or altered dominant that stacks ninths, elevenths, thirteenths, or chromatic tensions over a dominant-seventh core. It is built from the notes A, B, C#, E, G. This page shows how to play A 9 on Guitalele with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.
The A, G and E strings ring open in the lowest shape, with the remaining notes fretted at fret 1 over a 2-fret stretch. The root is the A string itself. It sounds from A2 up to B4.
Guitalele is tuned A–D–G–C–E–A, with 15 frets to work with. Guitar shapes work unchanged on guitalele — finger them exactly as charted; every shape sounds a perfect fourth higher than on guitar.
Browse alternate voicings to find the one that sits best under your fingers, then compare it with the other chord types built on A or explore the same shape in nearby keys. The diagrams list the notes in each voicing so you can connect the shape to the theory behind it.