Six String Guitar · Drop D Tuning (DADGBE)

Gm9G Minor 9th

DRoot

Ftone

Atone

Ctone

Etone

Formula 5 · ♭7 · 2 · 4 · 6 · Notes D · F · A · C · E

How to play it

Gm9 fingering positions

Drop D Tuning (DADGBE), 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).

G Minor 9th guitar chord — 3rd position (5 0 0 3 6 x) fretboard diagram in Drop D Tuning (DADGBE)

G Minor 9th guitar chord — 3rd position (5 0 3 3 3 x) fretboard diagram in Drop D Tuning (DADGBE)

G Minor 9th guitar chord — 3rd position (5 x 0 3 6 5) fretboard diagram in Drop D Tuning (DADGBE)

G Minor 9th guitar chord — 3rd position (5 0 0 3 6 3) fretboard diagram in Drop D Tuning (DADGBE)

G Minor 9th guitar chord — 3rd position (5 0 0 3 6 5) fretboard diagram in Drop D Tuning (DADGBE)

G Minor 9th guitar chord — 3rd position (5 0 0 3 6 6) fretboard diagram in Drop D Tuning (DADGBE)

G Minor 9th guitar chord — 3rd position (5 0 3 x 3 6) fretboard diagram in Drop D Tuning (DADGBE)

G Minor 9th guitar chord — 3rd position (5 0 3 0 3 6) fretboard diagram in Drop D Tuning (DADGBE)

Read it as tab

Gm9 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.

G Minor 9th guitar tab — 3rd position (5 0 0 3 6 x) in Drop D Tuning (DADGBE)

G Minor 9th guitar tab — 3rd position (5 0 3 3 3 x) in Drop D Tuning (DADGBE)

G Minor 9th guitar tab — 3rd position (5 x 0 3 6 5) in Drop D Tuning (DADGBE)

G Minor 9th guitar tab — 3rd position (5 0 0 3 6 3) in Drop D Tuning (DADGBE)

G Minor 9th guitar tab — 3rd position (5 0 0 3 6 5) in Drop D Tuning (DADGBE)

G Minor 9th guitar tab — 3rd position (5 0 0 3 6 6) in Drop D Tuning (DADGBE)

G Minor 9th guitar tab — 3rd position (5 0 3 x 3 6) in Drop D Tuning (DADGBE)

G Minor 9th guitar tab — 3rd position (5 0 3 0 3 6) in Drop D Tuning (DADGBE)

Sound

How Gm9 sounds

Consonance

4/ 5

Brightness

DarkBright

Character

Moods & genres

Moods

wistfullushintrospective

Genres

jazzr&bneo-soul

Theory

Notes & relationships

NotesD · F · A · C · E

Formula (scale degrees)5 · ♭7 · 2 · 4 · 6

Same notes asGm7(add9)

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