Chord

F Major 6/9

  • F6/9
  • F69
  • Fmaj6/9
  • FM6/9
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
FM3Am3C2D4G
Extends
F Major 6

F Major 6/9, written F6/9, is built from F, A, C, D and G: the root, major 3rd, 5th, 6th and 9th.

Its 3rd and 6th, A and D, 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

    F Pentatonic

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

  2. Mode of Major

    F Ionian

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

  3. Mode of Major

    F Lydian

Voicings All 8