Chord

G Major 6/9

  • G6/9
  • G69
  • Gmaj6/9
  • GM6/9
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
GM3Bm3D2E4A
Extends
G Major 6

G Major 6/9, written G6/9, is built from G, B, D, E and A: the root, major 3rd, 5th, 6th and 9th.

Its 3rd and 6th, B and E, 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

    G Pentatonic

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

  2. Mode of Major

    G Ionian

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

  3. Mode of Major

    G Lydian

Voicings All 8