Gmaj9 banjo chord

How to play Gmaj9 on banjo

The most common way, the first shape above: your ring finger on the low D string at the 4th fret and your index finger on the G string at the 2nd fret. Let the short G, B and high D strings ring open.

From the short G string 0 4 2 0 0 (x: not played, 0: open)

What notes are in Gmaj9?

Gmaj9, G major ninth, is G, B, D, F♯ and A: the root (G), the major third (B), the perfect fifth (D), the major seventh (F♯) and the ninth (A). Its formula is 1 3 5 7 9.