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

[@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.

[@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 😊

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@chmendez]

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

[@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.

[@kayleebaginski]

David on the guitar was my favorite part of this video

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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 ...

[@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!

[@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.

[@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 🥰

[@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!

[@tonemoreno763]

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

[@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

[@patemblen3644]

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

[@hodgheg]

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

[@random275]

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

[@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.

[@MomLAU]

Love your original piece at the end!

[@derekrakestraw4561]

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

[@mocoSaladoRico]

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

[@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...

[@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).

[@AlyraMoondancer]

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

[@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)

[@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?

[@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.

[@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"

[@x1PMac1x]

That was totally sick-th.

[@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. 🤠

[@TinyBolts1]

10:09 i love how casually you say that

[@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!

[@elmerexpress]

What a wonderous tone in that little melody of yours!

[@GuitarLessonsBobbyCrispy]

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

[@bevo65]

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

[@TigerRogers0660]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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...

[@mechanussunrise]

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

[@philoshaughnessy906]

The closing composition is just divine.

[@danielmateovargas3796]

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

[@zimmejoc]

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

[@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 😊

[@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.)

[@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

[@slyovin]

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

[@ALF8892]

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

[@dustbunnys]

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

[@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

[@11thdimension1986]

Thom Yorke - The Eraser?

[@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! 😊

[@southsideronnie]

Nice piece to close out. Thank you David!

[@iraklismoschonas5214]

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”. 😀

[@aaronp0324]

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

[@MikeS29]

Thank you, and beautiful original piece at the end.

[@valenvillanueva.musica]

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

[@cliffhughes6010]

Thanks for the explanation of minor 6th chords, David. I think I've never quite understood it before.

[@bmshala]

Lovely the piano at the end. Thnx!

[@HowlingFretFumbler]

Wow that piece at the end is bliss!! ❤

[@guillaumefimbry5607]

That piece you wrote has some kind of Satie vibe, nice

[@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.

[@loganfinn2728]

This ending piece is one of your best yet

[@uchihauzumaki8789]

Yooo thanks man your videos are really helpful

[@DavidBennettPiano]

Glad you like them!

[@mvrabreu]

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

[@wpfairbanks]

“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

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@cakemartyr5794]

Keane at last! Thank you! Anyway, really good stuff. Particularly about the sixth chords often being "imposters" of other chords

[@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

[@francescor.giusti2211]

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

[@boomerbear7596]

D6 in the verse to "Babe" by Styx immediately jumped to mind.

[@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

[@druwk]

Outro is hauntingly beautiful

[@ecowman5224]

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

[@cdprince768]

Thanks for the explanation of the C6 in classical music. And I thought calculus was hard.

[@joepriestle1024]

Jazz loves sixth chords. The trick is trying to keep them from sounding like inverted minor seventh chords by doubling the root.

[@axlhyvonen461]

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😊🎉

[@charleswood2182]

Incredibly lucid explanations and examples.

[@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.

[@happybeach777]

Some reason why you would use a 6th chord. 1) there is a root in the melody, so to add color to have the root sound more interesting you can add the 6th which wouldn't clash with the root unlike a maj7 would...... 2) Maj 6 chords in jazz inspire playing the major pentatonic scale... Which gives 1930s swing music that poppy sometimes dare I say cheesy flare. 3rd) 6th chords are great to add to music that mostly consists of triads and when you want to spice up the harmony without overdoing it. Doing this can add a Sence of folklor and darkness to the sound, especially when ending a song on either a min or Maj 6..... Where ending on Maj 7 could be looked at as too jazzy for the context. Hope this helps!!!

[@elishasharp1]

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

[@AT7outof10]

Been listening to the Klonoa Door to Phantomile ost, and I recognized that C-6th instantly as part of the track "Untamed Heart"

[@aarontabuchi5693]

Your song sounds like wintertime in the car after an Italian dinner. It’s sick dude

[@yorgle]

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

[@davidmochen]

Bravo, and beautiful song of yours!

[@MSkwar]

Mr. bungle - Retrovertigo. Dm6 to C/G. So nice

[@kbimm]

What a beautiful piece at the end! Totally carried away…