A minor/major ninth piano chord - AmM9

The A minor/major ninth chord is a 5-note chord consisting of the notes A, C, E, G# and B.
You can see these notes highlighted in the interactive piano chart below.
The chord itself is often abbreviated as AmM9.

Interactive piano diagram for the A minor/major ninth chord

Piano keyboard displaying the A minor/major ninth chord with the notes AB#CFbECbBG#Ab

Reduced chords

Chords that are a subset of AmM9. These contain less notes but all of them are included in AmM9.

Scales with AmM9

Below you find all scales that include AmM9:

  • melodic minor
  • harmonic minor
  • minor hexatonic
  • lydian diminished
  • hungarian minor
  • minor bebop
  • minor six diminished
  • messiaen's mode #3
  • messiaen's mode #7
  • chromatic

A minor/major ninth piano chord chart image

In case you prefer a non-interactive variant of the chord chart, we've embedded a PNG image below that shows the notes for the the AmM9 chord. Feel free to save or share the image as needed.

Piano chord chart for the A minor/major ninth chord (AmM9). The notes A, C, E, G# and B are highlighted.