Songs that use 6th Chords

[@DavidBennettPiano]

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[@Arycke]

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]

@@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]

@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

[@shadowclaw878]

still think it would better fit the theme of the other services by calling it pianoeo

[@cookicha]

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]

Thank you 😊

[@yverickdast1765]

⁠@@DavidBennettPianothank you mr bennett

[@Jimmyjames738]

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

[@YourLoyalDeserter]

@@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]

@@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]

That ending piece was hauntingly beautiful

[@gregoryhaddock5395]

Right??? It's soooooo good! 💔🖤

[@endoflevelboss]

"hauntingly beautiful" wtf does that mean

[@endoflevelboss]

​@@gregoryhaddock5395Right? Right? Right?

[@charlesdartagnan8788]

@@endoflevelboss have you never heard that phrase before

[@endoflevelboss]

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

[@eatingsound373]

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

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Thank you!

[@aldocort3418]

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

[@DarioTinucci]

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]

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

[@johnpriceuk]

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

[@Moon_hopper]

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]

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

[@AgressiveElevatorMusic]

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]

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]

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

[@lecleto]

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.

[@christopherotto5433]

Midcentury advertising jingles had LOTS of major sixths. That sound used to be everywhere, until it wasn't. Auto dealerships in my town kept a few of those jingles going into the 70s after they'd fallen out of fashion, but soon enough they used newer styles. Steely Dan called back to the style in the backing vocals to "Peg", but even *that* was 47 years ago.

[@mccartney7108]

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

[@adityanadgauda]

Not a hot take. 100% agree

[@GizzyDillespee]

More Hot Club than hot take

[@sebastianschweigert7117]

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

[@spindriftdrinker]

@@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]

@@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.

[@NeonWhirlwind]

6/9 chords are the best

[@theaver6ge]

I agree, it sound *Nice*

[@bobsmith3291]

Your ma loves a 6/9 chord

[@uriahlegutki2257]

Cant tell if your being serious

John Mayer introduced them to me

[@mrnogot4251]

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

[@JayMonk595]

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

[@chmendez]

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

[@bornaskracic8011]

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

[@DavidBennettPiano]

I’m glad it was helpful 😊

[@unacuentadeyoutube13]

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!

[@rodmac8358]

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

[@chmendez]

I second that

[@SpaghettiToaster]

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

[@smallhumble]

I have a problem with this video. Audio and video are not synchronised. 0:53 I see a Radiohead score while you are talking about She loves you. Anyone else who has the same problem?

[@Cephlin]

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.

[@barlevy13]

From 0:50 there is a sync problem in the video (or is it just me?!)

[@kyranday3906]

Me too

[@mikerozell3177]

Me too

[@Anonymous-o6t6p]

Me too

[@ILoveMagic15]

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!

[@zimmejoc]

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

[@patemblen3644]

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

[@random275]

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

[@derekrakestraw4561]

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

[@allekassen]

The "classical" sixth chords are half as confusing if you remember that it is actually figured bass notation. But that means that the chord you call C6. should be notated E\6 (in keys without a C# -- in D major, you would have to write E\b6), and your C6\4 should be called G 6\4.

[@theowijdeven2201]

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...

[@InsArtTure]

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!

[@AlyraMoondancer]

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

[@redactedhoptional]

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!

[@dustbunnys]

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

[@GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy]

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

[@tonemoreno763]

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

[@sbingham1979]

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)

[@MomLAU]

Love your original piece at the end!

[@dannybonsai7102]

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

[@maxblatter]

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 KZbin under kzbin.info/www/bejne/b6CXhGWtr5x-apY

[@parodygm]

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

[@chrisjeffrey7570]

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

[@sbingham1979]

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"

[@mocoSaladoRico]

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

[@megaohmaudio5963]

At 7:18 - Bullet Proof...I Wish I Was Is the last measure Dsus4 instead of Dsus2? or rather Gmaj7...some inversion? 🤔 The notes as written are: D F# G

[@thefoss5387]

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.

[@ThePi314Man]

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.

[@Arycke]

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]

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

[@jakubnowak649]

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]

True!

[@AlDunbar]

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

[@garethevans2650]

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?

[@davidjohnson1654]

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]

Thank you 😊

[@kayleebaginski]

David on the guitar was my favorite part of this video

[@infertype]

There seems to be something not lining up between your audio and the video. I see Pyramid Song on the screen as you discuss the Beatles, and the various Beatles bits come up at times that don’t align to the audio discussing them. Don’t know why nobody else seems to be commenting on that. For example, you’re talking about Michelle but the video is showing Fool on a Hill.

[@droobie_]

Same here!!

[@stevesawyer4286]

@@droobie_Same here.

[@yorgle]

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

[@benruniko]

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.

[@ALF8892]

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

[@pathaks1]

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

[@TinyBolts1]

10:09 i love how casually you say that

[@rubenazafran156]

I am happy to found your channel. It l is great!!! I learned a lot in only a few days. Perfect explanations. Perfect lessons. Hearing and understanding is so important. Thank you!!!

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Happy to hear that! 😊

[@mbmillermo]

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.)

[@jean.marion]

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 🥰

[@elmerexpress]

What a wonderous tone in that little melody of yours!

[@sirB0nes]

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).

[@kierenmoore3236]

7:04 … Is there something amiss there? … If it’s Dsus2, it should be notated D-E-A, not D-F#-G … ? 🤔

[@slyovin]

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

[@uchihauzumaki8789]

Yooo thanks man your videos are really helpful

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Glad you like them!

[@jakubnowak649]

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]

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

[@mechanussunrise]

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

[@x1PMac1x]

That was totally sick-th.

[@thiagoskapata]

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

[@chriswood426]

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

[@daregularperson]

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.

[@mvrabreu]

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

[@danielmateovargas3796]

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

[@prepcoin_nl4362]

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]

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

[@Foxywaterable]

I love these videos! You do a fantastic job!

[@MikeS29]

Thank you, and beautiful original piece at the end.

[@Jimmyjames738]

Is the audio completely out of sync with the video for anyone else?

[@matthewlilley9410]

Yes and it was driving my crazy that none of the comments were mentioning it. Had to scroll forget to find yours. Thought I was going insane.

[@Jimmyjames738]

@@matthewlilley9410 same! Thankyou. 👍

[@wazzurp42]

Sixth chords are the nicest chords to ever exist

[@TheDrewjameson]

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...

[@henrique88t]

0:15 i swear that sound exactly like the beginning chord of some track on Metroid Fusion OST. yeah, I went after it, it's the track called "environmental tension".

[@bsiems_willieaugustproject]

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.

[@Churro_Flaminguez]

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

[@Bacopa68]

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

[@peterhoglund9603]

Thanks David, luv your videos

[@southsideronnie]

Nice piece to close out. Thank you David!

[@elishasharp1]

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

[@kvvvy6359]

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

[@ericmather-burks7380]

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]

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]

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

[@Nosagram]

It’s it just me or is there really bad sync issues? When he starts the “She loves you”, it’s got video from the “Pyramid song by Radiohead” and everything is thrown off after that

[@adrianhepton9362]

Great to see the references to piano music being complemented by references to guitar riffs

[@valenvillanueva.musica]

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

[@STERNWAERTS]

brilliant stuff as always!

[@bmshala]

Lovely the piano at the end. Thnx!

[@everestjarvik5502]

Is anyone else experiencing a really long lag between the video and audio after the first 30 seconds or so? Or is it just the KZbin app doing a weird glitch I’ve never seen before

[@DavidBennettPiano]

The glitch is happening because I edited a segment out of the video using the KZbin editor and now it is still processing so some viewers are experiencing this annoying glitch! It will sort it self out within the next 24 hours. Sorry! Perhaps add this video to your watch later and come back tomorrow 😊

[@TaxPayingContributor]

10:30 nothing really matters to me. Except that 6th outro

[@ericrakestraw664]

A sixth chord (major or minor) with an add 9 could also be called a pentatonic chord, since it uses all the notes of the pentatonic scale. In classical music, a sixth chord functions as a ii7 chord in first inversion (6 5) leading to the dominant chord.

[@HowlingFretFumbler]

Wow that piece at the end is bliss!! ❤

[@ecowman5224]

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

[@hodgheg]

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

[@justsomeguy6133]

Is the audio misaligned on this video or is it just my KZbin app?

[@Anonymous-o6t6p]

Mine is too

[@jackmartinleith]

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.

[@bevo65]

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

[@LuisSantos-nf9rs]

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]

XTC is so damn good

[@DroomSpook]

Awesome. Examples?

[@gm4551]

Anyone remember the novelty song 'Toast' by Streetband featuring Paul Young on vocals? It was a top 20 hit in the UK from the late 1970's. It's the only chart hit that I can think of that is played exclusively on 6th chords all through the song!

[@NomeDeArte]

Love this videos, thank you!

[@CynthiaCloskey]

The visuals seem out of sync on this for me. Anyone else?

[@clownpocket]

I must’ve gotten a copyright strike, and they cut out the audio not the video

[@paulhancock1530]

Nice tune you wrote at the end. Love it. Of course, Status Quo made a living off adding that 6 to their power chords. All comes from Chuck Berry I guess. The Quo rule lol. Great vid. Love your stuff.

[@GAYAKRISTAL]

You’re just the best teacher on KZbin! ❤