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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@DavidBennettPiano 11 ай бұрын

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@Arycke 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

@@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 11 ай бұрын

@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 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

@yverickdast1765 11 ай бұрын

⁠@@DavidBennettPianothank you mr bennett

@Jimmyjames738 11 ай бұрын

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

@YourLoyalDeserter 11 ай бұрын

@@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 11 ай бұрын

@@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 11 ай бұрын

That ending piece was hauntingly beautiful

@gregoryhaddock5395 11 ай бұрын

Right??? It's soooooo good! 💔🖤

@endoflevelboss 11 ай бұрын

"hauntingly beautiful" wtf does that mean

@endoflevelboss 11 ай бұрын

@@gregoryhaddock5395Right? Right? Right?

@charlesdartagnan8788 11 ай бұрын

@@endoflevelboss have you never heard that phrase before

@FeedsNoSliesMusic 11 ай бұрын

@@endoflevelboss 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.

@eatingsound373 11 ай бұрын

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

@DavidBennettPiano 11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@aldocort3418 11 ай бұрын

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

@FaMinore 11 ай бұрын

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

@alonkatz4633 11 ай бұрын

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

@NeonWhirlwind 11 ай бұрын

6/9 chords are the best

@theaver6ge 11 ай бұрын

I agree, it sound *Nice*

@bobsmith3291 10 ай бұрын

Your ma loves a 6/9 chord

@uriahlegutki2257 9 ай бұрын

Cant tell if your being serious

9 ай бұрын

John Mayer introduced them to me

@mrnogot4251 9 ай бұрын

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

@zimmejoc 11 ай бұрын

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

@mccartney7108 11 ай бұрын

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

@adityanadgauda 11 ай бұрын

Not a hot take. 100% agree

@GizzyDillespee 11 ай бұрын

More Hot Club than hot take

@sebastianschweigert7117 11 ай бұрын

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

@spindriftdrinker 11 ай бұрын

@@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 11 ай бұрын

@@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.

@johnpriceuk 11 ай бұрын

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

@AgressiveElevatorMusic 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

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

@lecleto 7 ай бұрын

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.

@yorgle 11 ай бұрын

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

@chmendez 11 ай бұрын

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

@Cephlin 11 ай бұрын

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.

@whytheturtles 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

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

@JayMonk595 10 ай бұрын

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

@patemblen3644 11 ай бұрын

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

@unacuentadeyoutube13 11 ай бұрын

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!

@bornaskracic8011 9 ай бұрын

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

@DavidBennettPiano 9 ай бұрын

I’m glad it was helpful 😊

@TinyBolts1 11 ай бұрын

10:09 i love how casually you say that

@derekrakestraw4561 11 ай бұрын

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

@slyovin 10 ай бұрын

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

@rodmac8358 11 ай бұрын

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

@chmendez 11 ай бұрын

I second that

@SpaghettiToaster 11 ай бұрын

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

@InsArtTure 11 ай бұрын

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!

@GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy 11 ай бұрын

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

@dannybonsai7102 11 ай бұрын

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

@ILoveMagic15 11 ай бұрын

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!

@jakubnowak649 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

True!

@AlDunbar 11 ай бұрын

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

@garethevans2650 11 ай бұрын

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?

@chriswood426 11 ай бұрын

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

@mocoSaladoRico 11 ай бұрын

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

@MomLAU 11 ай бұрын

Love your original piece at the end!

@ALF8892 11 ай бұрын

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

@southsideronnie 11 ай бұрын

Nice piece to close out. Thank you David!

@random275 11 ай бұрын

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

@bmshala 11 ай бұрын

Lovely the piano at the end. Thnx!

@peterhoglund9603 11 ай бұрын

Thanks David, luv your videos

@elmerexpress 11 ай бұрын

What a wonderous tone in that little melody of yours!

@mechanussunrise 11 ай бұрын

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

@Arycke 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

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

@ecowman5224 11 ай бұрын

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

@MikeS29 11 ай бұрын

Thank you, and beautiful original piece at the end.

@AlyraMoondancer 10 ай бұрын

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

@Foxywaterable 11 ай бұрын

I love these videos! You do a fantastic job!

@maxblatter 11 ай бұрын

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 KZfaq under kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b9VkhpWo352vZGg.html

@parodygm 11 ай бұрын

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

@chrisjeffrey7570 11 ай бұрын

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

@sbingham1979 11 ай бұрын

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"

@ValenVillanueva 10 ай бұрын

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

@Churro_Flaminguez 11 ай бұрын

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

@Bacopa68 11 ай бұрын

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

@sbingham1979 11 ай бұрын

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)

@kayleebaginski 11 ай бұрын

David on the guitar was my favorite part of this video

@mvrabreu 11 ай бұрын

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

@STERNWAERTS 11 ай бұрын

brilliant stuff as always!

@jasonscott2862 2 ай бұрын

That all 6 chord piece at the end was pretty cool experiment. Sounds great

@by_antony 11 ай бұрын

Love the explanations

@NomeDeArte 11 ай бұрын

Love this videos, thank you!

@davidmochen 8 ай бұрын

Bravo, and beautiful song of yours!

@HowlingFretFumbler 11 ай бұрын

Wow that piece at the end is bliss!! ❤

@pathaks1 11 ай бұрын

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

@benruniko 11 ай бұрын

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.

@sbingham1979 11 ай бұрын

This is great, thankyou so much

@danielmateovargas3796 11 ай бұрын

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

@capacle 11 ай бұрын

Great piece at the end!

@uchihauzumaki8789 11 ай бұрын

Yooo thanks man your videos are really helpful

@DavidBennettPiano 11 ай бұрын

Glad you like them!

@ThePi314Man 11 ай бұрын

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.

@hodgheg 9 ай бұрын

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

@brucearcher8872 11 ай бұрын

Wow! Good lesson!

@DavidBennettPiano 11 ай бұрын

Thanks 😉

@davidjohnson1654 8 ай бұрын

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 ай бұрын

Thank you 😊

@TigerRogers0660 11 ай бұрын

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

@ericmather-burks7380 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

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

@thefoss5387 11 ай бұрын

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.

@redactedhoptional 10 ай бұрын

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!

@ambientideas1 11 ай бұрын

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

@jean.marion 11 ай бұрын

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 🥰

@jakubnowak649 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

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

@x1PMac1x 11 ай бұрын

That was totally sick-th.

@theowijdeven2201 10 ай бұрын

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...

@dragasan 11 ай бұрын

Thank you!

@sirB0nes 11 ай бұрын

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).

@dustbunnys 11 ай бұрын

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

@axlhyvonen461 11 ай бұрын

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😊🎉

@bevo65 11 ай бұрын

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

@GAYAKRISTAL 11 ай бұрын

You’re just the best teacher on KZfaq! ❤

@mbmillermo 10 ай бұрын

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.)

@iraklismoschonas5214 11 ай бұрын

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”. 😀

@elishasharp1 11 ай бұрын

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

@Anthony_Giorgio_Guitar 11 ай бұрын

And I Love Her uses an E6 to great effect

@daregularperson 11 ай бұрын

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.

@bsiems_willieaugustproject 11 ай бұрын

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 11 ай бұрын

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...

@douglaso6428 9 ай бұрын

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

@loganfinn2728 11 ай бұрын

This ending piece is one of your best yet

@ikaray1775 11 ай бұрын

I sincerely love you man❤

@sijousaboro5510 11 ай бұрын

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

@thiagoskapata 11 ай бұрын

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

@druwk 10 ай бұрын

Outro is hauntingly beautiful

@prepcoin_nl4362 11 ай бұрын

I've never heard of the convention of treating min6 chords as a dorian 6 by default, and I've definitely seen the same attitude in multiple pieces of academic literature. Considering how much more common these 'minb6' chords are and how the minor scale is default thought of as the Aeolian mode these days, it makes more sense to me to call them min6 by default and dorian 6's as either that, melodic minor 6, or min#6.

@oldmatedave1 11 ай бұрын

Well... it really IS the convention! At least, in any kind of popular style of music. And those minor chords with the added 6th are WAY more common than min(b6). It's also comes down to how we name chords. We don't name chords based on scales but intervals. So a 6 in a chord name means a major 6th regardless of whether the base triad is major or minor

@philoshaughnessy906 9 ай бұрын

The closing composition is just divine.

@kvvvy6359 11 ай бұрын

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

@LuisSantos-nf9rs 11 ай бұрын

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 9 ай бұрын

XTC is so damn good

@DroomSpook 9 ай бұрын

Awesome. Examples?