Chord

Gb Major 6/9

  • Gb6/9
  • Gb69
  • Gbmaj6/9
  • GbM6/9
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
GbM3Bbm3Db2Eb4Ab
Extends
Gb Major 6

Gb Major 6/9, written Gb6/9, is built from Gb, Bb, Db, Eb and Ab: the root, major 3rd, 5th, 6th and 9th.

Its 3rd and 6th, Bb and Eb, 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

    Gb Pentatonic

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

  2. Mode of Major

    Gb Ionian

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

  3. Mode of Major

    Gb Lydian

Voicings All 8