Chord

A Major 6/9

  • A6/9
  • A69
  • Amaj6/9
  • AM6/9
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
AM3C#m3E2F#4B
Extends
A Major 6

A Major 6/9, written A6/9, is built from A, C#, E, F# and B: the root, major 3rd, 5th, 6th and 9th.

Its 3rd and 6th, C# and F#, 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

    A Pentatonic

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

  2. Mode of Major

    A Ionian

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

  3. Mode of Major

    A Lydian

Voicings All 8