Chord

Db Minor 6

  • Dbmin6
  • Dbm6
  • Db-6
  • Dbminor6
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
Dbm3FbM3Ab2Bb

Db Minor 6, written Dbm6, is built from Db, Fb, Ab and Bb: the root, minor 3rd, 5th and 6th.

Its 3rd and 6th, Fb and Bb, 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.

In the progressions here, Dbm6 is the i6 of the Minor ii-V-I Progression in Db and the iv6 of the Minor Plagal Cadence in Ab.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    Db Melodic Minor

    The melodic minor scale is similar to the major scale with only one difference - it use...

  2. Mode of Major

    Db Dorian

Voicings All 14