Badd9 — bouzouki chord
Add 9 · 8 fingerings for trichordo (D–A–D)
Notes and intervals
Badd9 (B add9) is built from B C♯ D♯ F♯: intervals 1 9 3 5.
Fingerings on D-A-D
Frets, low D · A · high D
- Root position: 9-9-11 (B F♯ C♯)
- Root position: 9-4-4 (B C♯ F♯)
- 1st inversion: 11-9-9 (C♯ F♯ B)
- 1st inversion: 11-6-9 (C♯ D♯ B)
- 2nd inversion: 1-2-4 (D♯ B F♯)
- 2nd inversion: 1-4-4 (D♯ C♯ F♯)
- 3rd inversion: 4-2-1 (F♯ B D♯)
- 3rd inversion: 4-4-1 (F♯ C♯ D♯)
Neither open course (D or A) is a chord tone, so every shape is fully fretted.
In the dromoi
None of the dromoi on this site lists Badd9 among its chords, so it is shown here as a shape reference.
Trichordo (D-A-D) and tetrachordo (C-F-A-D)
These shapes are for the three-course trichordo. A tetrachordo’s A and D courses are tuned the same, so the top two notes stay put and the low-D bass note moves two frets up the C course. The first shape, 9-9-11 on trichordo, becomes C 11, A 9, D 11 on tetrachordo, with the F course left out.