Space plays and stops
- Notes and intervals
- Am3CM3Em3GM3B
- Extends
- A Minor 7
A Minor 9, written Am9, is built from A, C, E, G and B: the root, minor 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and 9th.
Its 3rd and 7th, C and G, are its guide tones: they say what kind of chord it is, so voicings are built around them and the root is often left to the bass.