Chord Of The Week 12/12/15 - The All About Eve ' Martha's Harbour' Amadd9 chord

This was an influential chord for me as the song was released soon after I started to play guitar. I bought the single and tried to transcribe it. I worked out that the guitar must be tuned down a tone, but I assumed it must be played in open position down near the nut end of the fretboard, whereas from the video below you can clearly see it's actually position IX.

The characteristic chord for the song is
Amadd9: x 0 10 9 0 0
and the picking order of the strings (string 1 next to the floor, string 6 next to the ceiling) is
5 4 3 1 (5) 2 4 2

Because of the down-tuning it sounds like Gmadd9, but you can see a long shot of Tim Bricheno playing the chord as an Amadd9 at 0:14 in this video:

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