Songs that use 6th Chords

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Sixth chords are a less common type of chord but still very useful in adding extra colour and diversity to your chord progressions. The term "sixth chord" can also be unexpectedly confusing due to various conflicting and overlapping definitions and usages of that term!
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0:00 What is a sixth chord?
0:50 The Beatles sixth chords
2:25 Sixth chords on guitar
3:58 Jazz & Swing
4:33 6/9 chords
5:05 Minor 6th chord
7:03 Pianote
8:04 Inverted 6th chords
10:33 Classical 6th chords vs. Modern 6th chords
13:00 Piano outro

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24 июн 2024

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@DavidBennettPiano Год назад

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@Arycke Год назад

Hey quick question, this was uploaded one hour ago. How did you get this comment pinned 4 days ago? I'm not familiar with delayed uploads if that is a thing that can be done when publishing videos Thank you. I love all your videos and teaching style.

@DavidBennettPiano Год назад

@@Aryckeno worries! So all my videos are unlisted before being published, so the date you see on this video is the date I chose to publish it, not the date it was uploaded. 😊

@Arycke Год назад

@DavidBennettPiano Hey David thank you for getting back to me sir, I appreciate it a lot. I understand now :) keep up the great work man, I really love your content

@cookicha Год назад

David you seem to put a lot of work in each of your videos. I want to thank you for that, I appreciate it a lot. You are blessing, brother ❤

@DavidBennettPiano Год назад

Thank you 😊

@yverickdast1765 Год назад

⁠@@DavidBennettPianothank you mr bennett

@Jimmyjames738 Год назад

@@DavidBennettPianofix the audio being out of sync with the video! It’s unwatchable.

@YourLoyalDeserter Год назад

@@DavidBennettPiano Seems like you cut out a bit about Pyramid Song from the audio but not the video, and now everything after that is out of sync. Should probably reupload.

@DavidBennettPiano Год назад

@@YourLoyalDeserter thanks for the heads up. It is because I made a cut to the video whilst online. It will sort itself out but it sometimes take a while. Try watching on a different device. Sorry!

@jeantapsa Год назад

That ending piece was hauntingly beautiful

@gregoryhaddock5395 Год назад

Right??? It's soooooo good! 💔🖤

@endoflevelboss Год назад

"hauntingly beautiful" wtf does that mean

@endoflevelboss Год назад

@@gregoryhaddock5395Right? Right? Right?

@charlesdartagnan8788 Год назад

@@endoflevelboss have you never heard that phrase before

@endoflevelboss Год назад

@FeedsNoSliesMusic I could also look up dicknose which is a word that inadvertently pops into my mind reading your reply 👍

@NeonWhirlwind Год назад

6/9 chords are the best

@theaver6ge Год назад

I agree, it sound *Nice*

@bobsmith3291 10 месяцев назад

Your ma loves a 6/9 chord

@uriahlegutki2257 10 месяцев назад

Cant tell if your being serious

10 месяцев назад

John Mayer introduced them to me

@mrnogot4251 10 месяцев назад

That is actually the exact sound you hear in your head during the act

@eatingsound373 Год назад

Such a beautiful composition at the end. You are extremely talented, David.

@DavidBennettPiano Год назад

Thank you!

@aldocort3418 Год назад

Yeah the line at 13:56 kinda reminded me of John Lennon's Beautiful Boy or Debussy's Arabesque

@dustbunnys Год назад

The audio isn’t syncing up properly for me???

@mccartney7108 Год назад

6th chords are some of my favourite tonally. my hot take is that 6th chords sound best on guitar.

@adityanadgauda Год назад

Not a hot take. 100% agree

@GizzyDillespee Год назад

More Hot Club than hot take

@sebastianschweigert7117 Год назад

I've heard so many people say "X sounds best on guitar." No it doesn't. You just play guitar

@spindriftdrinker Год назад

@@sebastianschweigert7117 Yup. I've played guitar for 50 years. It's a hard instrument. Many chords on guitar are very hard to play cleanly without contorting your fingers into very difficult spots. This is much less of a problem with piano.

@spindriftdrinker Год назад

@@xcx8646 Depends on the piece and the arrangement. You can take a Bach piece and put it into a key that works very nicely on guitar. But if you put it in the "wrong" key, it can become very difficult to play smoothly. This is true to varying degrees with any instrument.

@alonkatz4633 11 месяцев назад

You should make a video about German, French and Italian sixths as well. They deserve their time at the spotlight.

@johnpriceuk Год назад

Joni’s use of open tunings and unusual chord voicing is absolutely inspired. What a guitarist.

@FaMinore Год назад

Paul McCartney musically quoted "She loves you" in "My brave face", where the opening vocal harmony on the line "My brave, my brave, my brave face" lands on an E6. When they sing it at the end of the choruses, the voice on the C# then resolves on a B, going from E6 to E major

@AgressiveElevatorMusic Год назад

I play lap steel in C6 Hawaiian tuning. A ton of Hawaiian and, by extension, old country have that sixth sound all over them. A lot of the steel in SpongeBob was recorded in this tuning as well.

@MikeS29 Год назад

I play lap and pedal steel too (inexperienced, but learning), and since I only have a single neck pedal steel, I especially like to voice my E9 tuning to sound like the C6 tuning of my lap steel.

@AgressiveElevatorMusic Год назад

@@MikeS29yeah that A+B pedals down is basically A6 tuning. You can really fake a C6 sound in E9 tuning.

@lecleto 8 месяцев назад

At lap steel the 6ths are very useful tool when you want play minor chords without slants. This why lot of 6ths tunings are soo common on lap steel however the 6th signature sound always sound like a Hawain Music then, in some cases, this sound can be something that you don’t want.

@zimmejoc Год назад

Is it my playback or is the audio out of sync with the video?

@bornaskracic8011 10 месяцев назад

Great video! Coming from the classical background, I was always confused about sixth chord notation in modern songs. Thanks for very nice clarification.

@DavidBennettPiano 10 месяцев назад

I’m glad it was helpful 😊

@chmendez Год назад

Love your piano piece at the end. The 6th adds a mystery flavour.

@yorgle Год назад

Is the audio sync off on this one or is it just me?

@Moon_hopper Год назад

Great Job David! I'm a music teacher and I always share your channel with new students. You are so concise with your explanations as well as examples for context. Really appreciate your hard work.

@AlDunbar Год назад

I agree completely. I just wish I had had access to his videos decades ago when I was starting to play guitar.

@Cephlin Год назад

That was one of the most beautiful songs I've heard you write before David! Love it! And I learnt a few things that needed clarifying regarding the classical notation.

@jakubnowak649 Год назад

this Joni Mitchell fragment kinda reminds me of how you play the simplest 12-bar blues on guitar: you play the fifth, then the sixth and so on

@DavidBennettPiano Год назад

True!

@AlDunbar Год назад

There's a name for that, but I forget what it is

@garethevans2650 Год назад

I've heard it called a "ride". It's used a lot in blues/rock. Maybe David doesn't highlight it because it often leaves out the third?

@x1PMac1x Год назад

That was totally sick-th.

@JayMonk595 10 месяцев назад

Thank you. Really appreciate these videos you produce, succinct, informative and easy to follow. Wonderful composition, so moving. Thanks for performing it to us.

@unacuentadeyoutube13 Год назад

I can't believe that this video came out right now, as I asked for it in the comment section of the previous one. Apart from an amazing musician and educator, you seem to be able to read minds too David!

@patemblen3644 Год назад

What a great teacher! Calm, concise yet thorough. Lovely piece at the end too.

@ILoveMagic15 Год назад

I loved that you spoke about the different usages of the 6 labelling in pop and classical music. Moreover, I wasn't consciously aware that minor 6th chords had a major 6th, so that was great to learn! Your videos are really well done!

@TinyBolts1 Год назад

10:09 i love how casually you say that

@random275 Год назад

Good research in finding examples of what you are demonstrating - excellent presentation ! you certainly know your music theory :-) Phil

@rodmac8358 Год назад

Great video, David. Can you please make one explaining the Neapolitan, German and French Sixth chords? Thank you.

@chmendez Год назад

I second that

@SpaghettiToaster Год назад

Those are augmented sixth chords, that's something very different from a regular 6th chord.

@InsArtTure 11 месяцев назад

I respect David for all his great videos and all of his content is golden but I can't but smile at this video being the epitome of David's YT career featuring SO many mentions of "SIKT"! :) All the best to you, David! Keep up the good work!

@ericmather-burks7380 Год назад

When I turned on the closed captioning, it skipped over the part about the Pyramid Song by Radiohead. So the closed captioning moved onto the part about the end of "She Loves You" by the Beatles when David Bennett was talking about the Radiohead song. Ever since that happened, the closed captioning stayed ahead of what Bennett was saying. Who edits these subtitles anyway?

@Neil_SM Год назад

Yeah I had this same issue without closed captioning on. The audio track seemed to skip the Radiohead song and it therefore did not match up with the video after that point.

@ericmather-burks7380 Год назад

@@Neil_SM "Without?" Don't you mean "with?"

@derekrakestraw4561 Год назад

Excellent as always. I sure learned something new in that last segment. That's so crazy.

@dannybonsai7102 Год назад

Your channel is an oasis of wonder and learning. Youve done well not to lean into any controversies in an alienating way, keep it up. Do not stop what youre doing, the way youre doing it

@kayleebaginski Год назад

David on the guitar was my favorite part of this video

@ALF8892 Год назад

I cant really describe how great this video and your composition is. I can say that I love you David.

@chriswood426 Год назад

Great episode. You’ve taught me absolutely loads about music. Thank you for that

@sbingham1979 Год назад

No, this is BETTER than great, because you are so clear in your explanations of these chords, their examples, and the ways that one could be confused by the naming of them. This is just so very helpful and appreciated by one is rather easily confused (i.e. myself)

@peterhoglund9603 Год назад

Thanks David, luv your videos

@benruniko Год назад

The sixth always makes me think of relaxing soft music playing while I lay on a plush couch in a cozy room with an old grandfather clock ticking away nearby. Its very pleasant in a very specific way.

@Arycke Год назад

Thank you for making the disinction of the m6 not having the b6 and the.mb6 being distinctly different. On inversions of the minor 6 chord variations: Dm6 is an inversion of Bm7b5 Dm6 D F A B Bm7b5 B D F A Emb6 is an inversion of Cmaj7 Emb6 E G B C Cmaj7 C E G B

@fjodorcornelisson6874 Год назад

and thank you for giving these examples ... help me visualize the chords ...

@mechanussunrise Год назад

Glad you covered the confusions and the different jazz terminology versus common practice theory!

@AlyraMoondancer 10 месяцев назад

That piece at the end is *gorgeous.* Worth watching the video for that alone! (but the rest was excellent, too!)

@Foxywaterable 11 месяцев назад

I love these videos! You do a fantastic job!

@slyovin 11 месяцев назад

Thank you! I really loved your piece at the end of the video

@mocoSaladoRico Год назад

man, I am sooooo into these videos... they are fire!!!

@ecowman5224 Год назад

Great video, lovely tutorials and a wonderful piece of music too 👍🏻

@elmerexpress Год назад

What a wonderous tone in that little melody of yours!

@MikeS29 Год назад

Thank you, and beautiful original piece at the end.

@MomLAU Год назад

Love your original piece at the end!

@ValenVillanueva 11 месяцев назад

Hi David, thank you for your videos and your generosity sharing this concepts.

@southsideronnie Год назад

Nice piece to close out. Thank you David!

@davidmochen 9 месяцев назад

Bravo, and beautiful song of yours!

@STERNWAERTS Год назад

brilliant stuff as always!

@bmshala Год назад

Lovely the piano at the end. Thnx!

@mvrabreu Год назад

Thanks, man. You are the best. Love your channel.

@thefoss5387 Год назад

Mr. Bennett, while I understand the accents that 6th chords, in isolation, gives to your examples, the classic rocker in me cannot help but see the 6th chords as a signature element of formative Rock 'n' Roll. A rhythm guitar playing alternate root and 6ths (with an occasional excursion to a 7th) in a blues progression, covers the bulk of Chuck Berry's catalogue. The major to 6th movement seems the very definition of early rock. You have great content, as always, keep up the excellent work.

@NomeDeArte Год назад

Love this videos, thank you!

@jean.marion 11 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for describing what the 6 4 fraction means. I've been wondering for a year. - Gorgeous ending song! But you knew that already 🥰

@pathaks1 Год назад

Oh, thanks a lot. I could understand and feel why on melody side moving from one octave higher, downward melody is more melodious than as passing note

@HowlingFretFumbler Год назад

Wow that piece at the end is bliss!! ❤

@redactedhoptional 11 месяцев назад

Been following along with these videos in GarageBand and it was interesting to see how similar the piano samples (like at 0:15) sound to the default instrument in GarageBand that I was playing along using. Cool video, especially the outro music!

@by_antony Год назад

Love the explanations

@ThePi314Man Год назад

I think the main thing that distinguishes sixths from their minor seventh equivalents is the deliberate major second rub between the fifth and sixth notes of the scale. I've always heard Bohemian Rhapsody as starting on Bb6 because of this.

@danielmateovargas3796 Год назад

Wow i was thinking yesterday about sixth chords and here is the video, thanks David!

@sbingham1979 Год назад

This is great, thankyou so much

@jakubnowak649 Год назад

Btw damn I love the sound of a iim6 resolving to I, and I love finding out about different things from your videos, thanks!

@jakubnowak649 Год назад

it kinda sounds like a perfect cadence, probably because it shares three notes with a V7 chord

@GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy 11 месяцев назад

Help by The Beatles ends in an A6 chord ( since the F# is played on the guitar on the 1st string ).

@ambientideas1 Год назад

It’s the little nuanced enhancements that can turn the prosaic into something richly unique and interesting. Thanks for another great lesson. 👏

@sirB0nes Год назад

These last few videos are feeling a lot more like David Bennett Guitar than David Bennett Piano. I like that you're talking more about how the instrument on which a songwriter composes leads naturally to different musical choices (similar to the discussion about how voice leading is a natural choice to make when you're writing a song on piano).

@capacle Год назад

Great piece at the end!

@axlhyvonen461 Год назад

Making such videos really must be time consuming and not to mention fatiguing😊😊Besides You do it such a perfection😊😊Today I learned something new again, or relearned,I started to watch Your videos in October 2021😊🎉

@davidjohnson1654 8 месяцев назад

Thank you, once again, Mr. Bennett! And I LOVE your composition at the end, in all Sixth chords. It sounds very mellow, soothing, reflective. Serious, but not sad. Like it would fit lyrics of someone reflecting on their many years of a relationship together, while they're still together. It has that kind of vibe. ;) ... David J.

@DavidBennettPiano 8 месяцев назад

Thank you 😊

@lhawk120 Год назад

I’m a simple man. I see Macca, I click. (Loved seeing a Keane song featured tho)

@uchihauzumaki8789 Год назад

Yooo thanks man your videos are really helpful

@DavidBennettPiano Год назад

Glad you like them!

@mbmillermo 10 месяцев назад

Another very worthwhile lesson! I like that you added the bit about classical notation, which can lead to confusion. Your composition at the end was really beautiful. One thing I would have added: The Bm♭6 (B-D-F♯-G) is also a Gmaj7 in first inversion. Another thing worth noting, because it comes up a lot, especially in jazz: The Bm6 is very similar to the E9 and can be used as a substitution for E9. (An advanced idea that is probably too much jazz for this channel: The E7 is often used as the tritone sub for B♭7, so the Bm6 can be used instead. It turns out that the B melodic minor scale works well over B♭7 -- its 7th mode is called the B♭ altered scale because it contains all the altered tones for B♭7.)

@TigerRogers0660 Год назад

Thanks David!! I'll have to incorporate some more 6th chords into my songwriting.

@LuisSantos-nf9rs 11 месяцев назад

I believe that XTC also uses sixth chords several times, which seems to give that extra colour that distinguishes their songs from other more straightforward songs from their period.

@qclod 10 месяцев назад

XTC is so damn good

@DroomSpook 9 месяцев назад

Awesome. Examples?

@bevo65 Год назад

That piece at the end is about as relaxing as it gets. 👨‍🍳👌

@dragasan Год назад

Thank you!

@bsiems_willieaugustproject Год назад

First off, cool piece at the end. Very Keith Jarrett-esque dreamlike quality. Regarding the confusion over which 6th to add to a mi6 chord, it might be useful to mention at some point that in contemporary theory, absent special notations (#5, MA7, b13, etc.), the default scale for extending major triads is the mixolydian mode, while the default for minor triads is the dorian.

@TheDrewjameson Год назад

Love the piece you wrote; it reminds me of the background of a sad anime episode. The hero just defeated a new enemy they never thought they could defeat, but at a terrible cost. Now they have to live with their choices, while watching the rain outside the cafe windows...

@brucearcher8872 11 месяцев назад

Wow! Good lesson!

@DavidBennettPiano 11 месяцев назад

Thanks 😉

@Churro_Flaminguez Год назад

Love it. David Bennett Piano... and guitar 🎸

@Bacopa68 Год назад

Just because his last name is Piano doesn't mean he can't play guitar. 🤠

@GAYAKRISTAL 11 месяцев назад

You’re just the best teacher on RU-vid! ❤

@iraklismoschonas5214 Год назад

Great video once again David, thank you! Another example of a sixth chord is the very first chord of The Killers’ song, “When You Were Young”. 😀

@theowijdeven2201 11 месяцев назад

my classic music theory teacher very much disagreed about these chords, and I still follow when teaching: though C6 in fact is a Am7/C, and a Cm6 is a A half diminished/C in the second reversal...

@hodgheg 10 месяцев назад

Brilliantly explained... I've always struggled to explain this clearly to my pupils.

@ikaray1775 11 месяцев назад

I sincerely love you man❤

@sijousaboro5510 Год назад

I used Am6 in a recent composition of mine. It added a really nice flavour to the music.

@maxblatter Год назад

As logical sequence, the next video should be about the Seventh Chords 😉! And I am looking forward to it, because on of my all-time favorite songs "When You Sing" by my all-time favorite band "School of Seven Bells" (SVIIB) contains lenghty, dissonant chords which I used to describe as just "horribly beautiful", until I (as a musical layman) was able to analyze them as seventh chords. By the way: You may find the song here on RU-vid under ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9o4S2wz7K44.html

@parodygm Год назад

For sure, sixth chords and major 7ths are all over dreampop and shoegazer music.

@chrisjeffrey7570 Год назад

@@parodygmno he needs to explore borrowed chords, and then next vid after that explore how they can be a introduction to jazz

@sbingham1979 Год назад

Thank you Max for introducing me to "School of Seven Bells" whom I had never heard of until today, sadly. But thank you for directing me to the beautiful song "When You Sing"

@douglaso6428 10 месяцев назад

David, you are so talented! Love the piece you wrote! Is there a way to purchase a copy? Beautiful!

@kvvvy6359 Год назад

My favorite instance of 6th chords in The Beatles discography is "I'm happy just to dance with you". The Beatles themselves regarded that song as a throwaway, but it's still excellent cuz they're the Beatles lol

@fritsvanzanten3573 Год назад

Sick video! 😅

@tonemoreno763 2 месяца назад

I wish you were my music theory teacher when I was in high school.

@elishasharp1 11 месяцев назад

In Спокойная Ночь by Кино (Calm Night by Kino) there is a very nice use of a Dm6.

@wpfairbanks Год назад

“Come and get it” by Paul/badfinger sounds like the epitome of 6th in my opinion Love the 6th chord. Reminds me of eating sweets as a kid but having a cavity in the tooth that stings slightly. It’s just a little too sweet to be

@thiagoskapata Год назад

Minor sixth chords can be made from Dorian scale without borrowing. They are used a lot in ska after minor chords to add tension.

@francescor.giusti2211 Год назад

In You won’t see me bridge there’s a D6, descending chromatically to a Dm6, that matches quite well with mood of the song

@daregularperson Год назад

The way I’ve always thought about the 6/4 (or second) inversion notation is because I mainly play guitar. If I play an open G chord, and then do the folksy hammer on of the G’s 4th & 6th, the result is a C chord in the second inversion.

@druwk 11 месяцев назад

Outro is hauntingly beautiful

@loganfinn2728 Год назад

This ending piece is one of your best yet

@aaronp0324 Год назад

I'm learning when to use 6th and 7th chords. I found it's a great way to add color to the music.

@jackmartinleith 4 месяца назад

Hiya David. Glad you clarified the C6 / Am7 equivalence. I was already familiar with this but it isn't widely known. In a future video, could you do the same with, for example, Dm6 = an inversion of Bm7♭5 (also called B half diminished / Bø7 I think) and so on. People might find a lookup table useful. Thanks and best wishes from Bristol.