Chord

D Major 6/9

  • D6/9
  • D69
  • Dmaj6/9
  • DM6/9
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
DM3F#m3A2B4E
Extends
D Major 6

D Major 6/9, written D6/9, is built from D, F#, A, B and E: the root, major 3rd, 5th, 6th and 9th.

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

    D Pentatonic

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

  2. Mode of Major

    D Ionian

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

  3. Mode of Major

    D Lydian

Voicings All 8