Guitar skills: 'Add’ chords come in the form of either ‘add9’ or ‘add11’. The name tells you to add either a 9th or 11th interval to a basic major or minor chord. So, Cadd9 is a C chord ...

Further to Example 3, here is a Cadd9 in the same position. There is no b7 th, just the root-3rd-5th (C-E-G) plus the 9th (D) added on top. On an instrument such as the guitar where chords don’t ...