Cadd9 chord on guitar
The Cadd9 chord diagram on guitar, the notes it is built from, and the Alviena charts that use it.
The diagram
Songs to play with the Cadd9 chord on guitar
- Je Ne Veux Pas Travailler — Pink Martini
- Every Breath You Take — The Police
- Wonderwall — Oasis
- Je Te Donne — Jean-Jacques Goldman
- Perfect — Ed Sheeran
- Sweet Home Alabama — Lynyrd Skynyrd
- No Woman No Cry — Bob Marley
Which chords go with Cadd9
Across the sheets in the catalogue, Cadd9 most often appears alongside these chords. Learn them together and you can play a whole song.
The notes in Cadd9
C · D · G · E
The chord is built from 4 distinct pitches. A shape may double them an octave apart: the same note then appears more than once without changing the chord.
The shape, string by string
3 open strings · 1 muted string
| String | Fret | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 5 | 3 | C |
| 4 | open | D |
| 3 | open | G |
| 2 | 1 | C |
| 1 | open | E |