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Sixth chords are a less typical kind of chord but still really helpful in including additional colour and diversity to your chord developments. The term "sixth chord" can also be unexpectedly puzzling due to various conflicting and overlapping meanings and uses of that term!
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0:00 What is a 6th chord?
0:50 The Beatles 6th 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 sixth chords vs. Modern 6th chords.
13:00 Piano outro.
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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.
@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. š
@DavidBennettPianoĀ Hey David thank you for getting back to me sir, I appreciate it a lot. I understand now š keep up the great work man, I really love your content
6th chords are some of my favourite tonally. my hot take is that 6th chords sound best on guitar.
Not a hot take. 100% agree
Completely agree. I love them – along with dominant 9ths!š
More Hot Club than hot take
I’ve heard so many people say “X sounds best on guitar.” No it doesn’t. You just play guitar
@Sebastian Schweigert Are you suggesting that blues and rock don’t sound best on guitar?
Clearly certain things sound best on certain instruments. Try listening to techno that’s played on an acoustic guitar. Rubbish. Jazz and classical sound better on a piano than a guitar. This sin’t controversial.
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 ā¤
Thank you š
ā @David Bennett Pianothank you mr bennett
@David Bennett Pianofix the audio being out of sync with the video! Itās unwatchable.
@David Bennett Piano 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.
@tg72201 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!
That ending piece was hauntingly beautiful
Right??? It’s soooooo good! šš¤
“hauntingly beautiful” wtf does that mean
ā@Gregory HaddockRight? Right? Right?
@donutmaster have you never heard that phrase before
@donutmaster You know, we’ve got websites now that act like dictionaries, so you could just look up “haunting” and “beautiful” and piece it together yourself.
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.
I agree completely. I just wish I had had access to his videos decades ago when I was starting to play guitar.
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.
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.
@Michael Sheehanyeah that A+B pedals down is basically A6 tuning. You can really fake a C6 sound in E9 tuning.
As logical sequence, the next video should be about the Seventh Chords š! 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 YouTube under https://youtu.be/9o4S2wz7K44
For sure, sixth chords and major 7ths are all over dreampop and shoegazer music.
@It’s Parodygmno he needs to explore borrowed chords, and then next vid after that explore how they can be a introduction to jazz
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”
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.
Love your piano piece at the end. The 6th adds a mystery flavour.
Another very interesting video, thank you. You explain chords and their structures very clearly and I wish I’d had you as a music theory teacher when I was at school!
I am a bit confused about the whole Bm6 vs Bmadd-flat6 part though. You point out that chords are built out of the triad and then extra bits from the degrees of the root major scale by default. However, a G7 chord is G-B-D-F, but GMaj7 is G-B-D-F#. By the process of using the relevant major scale, surely that would imply that G7 should have F# in it by default? Or am I missing something here?
Such a beautiful composition at the end. You are extremely talented, David.
Thank you!
Yeah the line at 13:56 kinda reminded me of John Lennon’s Beautiful Boy or Debussy’s Arabesque
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
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)
Joniās use of open tunings and unusual chord voicing is absolutely inspired. What a guitarist.
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
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!
I cant really describe how great this video and your composition is. I can say that I love you David.
Interesting. I just finished Carrie Anne by the Hollies from my fake book and the chorus reprise after the steel drum solo begins with a C6. I just used the broken chord (C+A) to cover it. It works just fine. Edit: Normally the chorus starts with C and like the C6 chord, I just use C and G.
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 š„°
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”! š
All the best to you, David! Keep up the good work!