Dm69 guitar chord
Playable, correctly spelled, and not how the chord is normally voiced. Right now this is the shapes that put a ninth, eleventh or thirteenth below the root.
- Tap a note to hear it
- Arrows change position
- Fingers, notes or intervals
- Play the chord
About Dm69 — uncommon voicings
Dm69 is D, F, A, B and E — Dm6 with the ninth added as well.
It sounds cool and entirely at rest. No seventh, so nothing leans: a common last chord of a minor tune.
Minor tonic — nothing in it is pulling.
Dm69 notes and formula
| D | F | A | B | E |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ♭3 | 5 | 6 | 9 |
Also written Dm6/9, Dmin6/9 or D-6/9. The same chord either way; which spelling you meet depends on who wrote the chart.
How to play Dm69
Five notes and four fingers, so something has to go. Keep F (it fixes the quality) and B and E (what the symbol is about). Let A and D go, in that order — a perfect fifth says nothing the root has not, and in a band the bass has the root.
Play Dm69 as a shell — root, third and seventh — and the spare string takes the 11 (G).
All 11 common shapes as fret numbers, lowest string first. Hover or tap one to see it drawn.
- x53200, open position, D, root position, top note E, 2 open strings
- x53450, open position, D, root position, top note E, 1 open string
- x53455, 3rd fret, D, root position, top note A, barred
- x70767, 6th fret, E, 9th in the bass, top note B, barred
- 10-8-9-9-x-x, 8th fret, D, root position, top note E, all fretted
- x-8-9-9-10-10, 8th fret, F, 1st inversion, top note D, all fretted
- 10-x-9-10-10-12, 9th fret, D, root position, top note E, barred
- 10-x-12-10-12-12, 10th fret, D, root position, top note E, barred
- x-x-12-10-12-12, 10th fret, D, root position, top note E, barred
- x-12-12-10-12-12, 10th fret, A, 2nd inversion, top note E, barred
- 13-12-12-14-12-12, 12th fret, F, 1st inversion, top note E, barred
How to use Dm69
How you get to it. The turn that lands on Dm69 is Em7♭5 to A7♭9: the ii and the V of D minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.
In which keys. Every note of Dm69 belongs to C major (the ii, the supertonic) and A minor (the iv, the subdominant).
What to play over Dm69
Every note of Dm69 is in D dorian and D melodic minor.
Each of those is a page: the scale across the neck, and the chords it harmonises into — which is where Dm69 sits in it. Every scale.
Chords near Dm69
Change one note of Dm69 and you have Dm6 (drop the ninth), Dm9 (the sixth becomes the flat seventh), DmMaj9 (the sixth becomes the major seventh), Dmadd9 (drop the sixth) or D69 (the minor third becomes the major third).
Dm69 is a minor chord — root, minor third, fifth. Minor chords on every root.
The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.