Chord

B Major 6/9

  • B6/9
  • B69
  • Bmaj6/9
  • BM6/9
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
BM3D#m3F#2G#4C#
Extends
B Major 6

B Major 6/9, written B6/9, is built from B, D#, F#, G# and C#: the root, major 3rd, 5th, 6th and 9th.

Its 3rd and 6th, D# and G#, 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

    B Pentatonic

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

  2. Mode of Major

    B Ionian

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

  3. Mode of Major

    B Lydian

Voicings All 8