A♭ Minor Add 9
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Practice A♭ Minor Add 9
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Introduction
The A♭ Minor Add 9 chord is a four-note chord made up of A♭, B♭, C♭, and E♭.
Notes
Key Signature
A chord has no key signature of its own, but the A♭ Minor Add 9 is the tonic (i) chord of Ab Minor, which shares the signature of its relative major, Cb Major — 7 flats (B♭, E♭, A♭, D♭, G♭, C♭, F♭).
Order of flats
Flats are added in a fixed order — the reverse of the sharp order. Each new flat key adds the next flat on the list.
Mnemonic: Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles’ Father
Chords in the Key of A♭ Minor
These are the triads built on each degree of the A♭ minor scale:
A♭ Minor Add 9 — Frequently Asked Questions
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References & Further Reading
The note names, intervals, fingering, and harmony on this chord page are grounded in the following sources. Public domain treatises and scores are linked to their full text; primary data reflects piano.org's own interval-derived dataset.
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piano.org(2024)
piano.org chord note dataset — 43 chord types × 18 keys, derived from interval construction rules
Primary data
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