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Chord & Fret

Extended

symbols, sound and when to use them

Ninth, eleventh and thirteenth stack thirds above the seventh, building dense, colourful chords. They’re the vocabulary of jazz, bossa and R&B — more colour and more tension, always under control.

Symbols in this family · 10 qualities

Every symbol opens that chord’s own page: what it is, how it sounds, when to use it and its diagram on all four instruments.

C9Cmaj9Cm9C11Cm11C13Cmaj13Cm13Cmaj11Cm(maj9)

Every position on the neck — in the app

Here the explanation of each chord in the family stays open, with one diagram per instrument. The app is where the same harmony becomes the whole neck: every position, the inversions and the alternate tunings, with audio and no connection needed.

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Other chord families

Complete guide to chord types and qualities →