Guitar Chord

Continuing our Hendrix mini-series here at http://blogspot.com/ todays chord is a nice sounding E major9 chord. This chord is the very first guitar chord played at the start of Angel from The Cry of Love album released after his death.

Weve featured an alternative E major9 inversion before. Remember that Hendrix tuned his guitar down a half step, so youll sound a semitone higher unless you detune too. Theres more info on Jimis tuning in our first Hendrix chord post.

Heres the fingering for this guitar chord:

If you miss out the open E strings in this chord, youre playing a G#m7 chord.

Major 9 chords can be replace major 7th chords, and can often be played  in place of major chords. It can replace I and IV chords.

Major 9 chords use these degrees of the major scale: 1, 3, 5, 7, 9

E Major 9 uses the notes: E, D#, G#, B, F#, E

Our inversion uses the notes in this order: E, F#, G#, D#, B, E.

Tune in tomorrow for more of our Jimi Hendrix mini series and another Hendrix guitar chord of the day.