Jazzity

Chord

Major 6/9

  • 6/9
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  • maj6/9
  • M6/9
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
CM3Em3G2A4D
Extends
Major 6

C Major 6/9, written C6/9, is built from C, E, G, A and D: the root, major 3rd, 5th, 6th and 9th.

Its 3rd and 6th, E and A, 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.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Pentatonic

    C Pentatonic

    The major pentatonic scale leaves the 4th and 7th out of the major scale, so it has no ...

  2. Mode of Major

    C Ionian

    The major scale and its modes are the most commonly used scales in western music.

  3. Mode of Major

    C Lydian

Voicings All 8