Six String Guitar · Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1

Aø11♯9A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th

F♯Root

Atone

Ctone

Etone

Atone

Btone

Formula 6 · 1 · ♭3 · 5 · 1 · 2 · Notes F♯ · A · C · E · A · B

How to play it

Aø11♯9 fingering positions

Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1, low E on the left. Each dot is colour-coded by note — the ringed dot is the root. Numbers below show the fret per string (x = muted).

A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th guitar chord — Open (x 1 1 1 2 0) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1

A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th guitar chord — 5th position (8 6 6 6 5 x) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1

A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th guitar chord — 5th position (8 6 6 6 5 6) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1

A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th guitar chord — 6th position (8 6 x 9 9 9) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1

A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th guitar chord — 6th position (8 6 6 9 x 9) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1

A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th guitar chord — 6th position (8 6 6 9 9 9) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1

A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th guitar chord — 6th position (8 6 8 9 9 9) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1

A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th guitar chord — 7th position (8 7 x 8 9 9) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1

Read it as tab

Aø11♯9 guitar tab

The same voicings in tablature — high e on top, low E on the bottom. Each fret number is colour-coded by note; the ringed number is the root, × means don’t play that string.

A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th guitar tab — Open (x 1 1 1 2 0) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1

A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th guitar tab — 5th position (8 6 6 6 5 x) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1

A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th guitar tab — 5th position (8 6 6 6 5 6) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1

A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th guitar tab — 6th position (8 6 x 9 9 9) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1

A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th guitar tab — 6th position (8 6 6 9 x 9) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1

A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th guitar tab — 6th position (8 6 6 9 9 9) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1

A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th guitar tab — 6th position (8 6 8 9 9 9) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1

A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th guitar tab — 7th position (8 7 x 8 9 9) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 1

Sound

How Aø11♯9 sounds

Consonance

1/ 5

Brightness

DarkBright

Character

Moods & genres

Moods

thickmurky

Genres

jazz

Theory

Notes & relationships

NotesF♯ · A · C · E · A · B

Formula (scale degrees)6 · 1 · ♭3 · 5 · 1 · 2

Explore

More ways to play A Half-Diminished 11th Sharp 9th

Browse the rest of the A chords in this tuning, or open Aø11♯9 in the app for every voicing.

Aø11♯9 in other tunings:

See & hear Aø11♯9 in Chordology

The app shows every voicing across guitar, piano, bass, banjo and ukulele — in any tuning, with a capo, and you can play every chord back. All offline.

Hear every chordMore voicingsEvery tuning & capoWorks offline

Download on theApp Store