D6 guitar chord

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is D6. 6th chords can be played in place of any major chord, though they're often played as the last guitar chord in a song.
This D6 guitar chord is a fairly common inversion, you can play through some more 6th guitar chords here.

Major 6 chords use the scale degrees: 1, 3, 5, 6
D6 uses the notes: D, F# A, B
Major 6 chords can be played in place of almost all major chords and as chords I, IV and V in major keys.

Major 6th chords can also be considered as relative minor 7th chords, D6 and Bm7 have the same notes in so you can play this inversion in place of either of these two chords.

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Em7 / G6

Two guitar chords for the price of one! Today's guitar chord is Em7, this has exactly the same notes in as G6. The Em7 chord has its root note on the B string of the guitar:

This guitar chord can be created by modifying some of the 4 string Dominant 7th Guitar Chords we looked at in previous posts.

To create a minor7 chord from a Dominant 7th chord, lower the 3rd of the chord one fret. Comparing the minor 7 chord above with this Dominant 7th inversion you can see we've changed only one note.

As this guitar chord can also be thought of as a Major 6th chord, we can also easily change 7th chords into a 6th chord by lowering the 7th one fret. Compare the above inversion with this G7 guitar chord and you can see that again only note has changed.

Minor 7 chords use these scale degrees: 1, b3, 5, b7
E minor 7 uses the notes: E, G, B D
Minor7 chords can be played in place of most minor chords and as chords ii, ii and vi in major keys

Major 6 chords use the scale degrees: 1, 3, 5, 6
G6 uses the notes: G, B, D, E
Major 6 chords can be played in place of almost all major chords and as chords I, IV and V in major keys.

As you can see the notes of G6 and Em7 are the same, this means we're learning two guitar chords for the price of one. There are lots of guitar chords like this that can be used in multiple situations. In future posts we'll look at these chord synonyms in much more detail.

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A major 6

Today's Guitar Chord of the Day is A Major 6, we can also call this guitar chord A6: our first inversion of a 6th chord. Our previous guitar chord was a very nice sounding E major 13 used by Stevie Ray Vaughan in the song Lenny. This chord is the second chord of that song.

Major 6 chords can almost always be played in place of any other major chord. The added 6th note adds a nice quality to the chord, major 6th chords often work well as the last chord of a song. The root note of this major 6 guitar chord is on the E string of the guitar and played with the middle finger.
Major 6 chords use the notes from the major scale: 1, 3, 5, 6
A major 6 uses these notes A, C#, E, F#
Our inversion uses the notes in this order: A, F#, C#, E

Major 6 chords can replace any major chords in a key: chords I, IV and V

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