Maiden Voyage Chord (D9sus4): how to play it on guitar

Maiden Voyage Chord (D9sus4): guitar chord

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The first chord of the tune, vamped under the opening rhythm figure and the first bars of the A section

A D chord with the third replaced by a fourth (G) and a seventh and ninth added, which is the same as an A minor seventh over a D bass. With no third it neither resolves nor sounds major or minor, so it floats. Herbie Hancock built Maiden Voyage from four chords of this kind, moving them around instead of resolving them.

Also called Maiden Voyage voicing, D7sus4, D9sus4, Am7/D

Sources: Maiden Voyage (composition), Wikipedia · Suspended chord, Wikipedia · How to Play the 4 Maiden Voyage Chords (Contemporary School of Piano) · 9th sus4 chords on guitar (guitar-chord.org)

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What’s in it

R D4 G5 A♭7 C9 E

About this shape

Lowest note: D3, the root
Highest note: A4, the 5th
Stretch: no stretch
Fingers: 1 finger, index barre

Where it sits on the neck

Fingering not checked by a guitarist yet.

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