Mandolin Plays E maj9

The shape Mandolin fingers for E maj9, and the arrangement part built around it.

E maj9 spells E – F# – G# – B – D#. A chord chart tells you that much and stops; an arrangement asks what happens to it once the song is actually playing, which is the question this page answers.

The mandolin chair carries the chop on the backbeat — a closed, muted chord landing where a snare would, and a chop is a chord with the ring taken out of it — closed shapes only, damped the instant they sound, landing where a snare would.

Every shape below is drawn for GDAE, 4 courses, with the open shapes first and the movable ones up the neck after them, and each one plays back so you can hear it before it goes on a record.