F69 guitar chord
The standard grips this chord is usually shown with.
- Tap a note to hear it
- Arrows change position
- Fingers, notes or intervals
- Play the chord
About F69 — 2nd inversion
F69 is F, A, C, D and G — F6 with the ninth added as well.
It sounds wide and entirely at rest. The modern way to voice a tonic when a triad is too bare and a maj7 too pointed.
Tonic — it commits to nothing.
F69 notes and formula
| F | A | C | D | G |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 9 |
Also written F6/9, F6add9 or F six nine. The same chord either way; which spelling you meet depends on who wrote the chart.
How to play F69
F69 in 2nd inversion puts C in the bass instead of F, the 5th of the chord. The notes are the same; what changes is what the bass line does, which is most of why you would reach for it — it lets the lowest voice move by step where the root would have jumped.
One of F69’s 9 common shapes does this:x33233
Play F69 as a shell — root, third and seventh — and the spare string takes the #11 (B).
All 9 common shapes as fret numbers, lowest string first. Hover or tap one to see it drawn.
- 100011, open position, F, root position, top note F, barred
- xx3233, 2nd fret, F, root position, top note G, barred
- x33233, 2nd fret, C, 2nd inversion, top note G, barred
- x55565, 5th fret, D, 6th in the bass, top note A, barred
- x85765, 5th fret, F, root position, top note A, all fretted
- x87788, 7th fret, F, root position, top note C, barred
- x-10-10-10-10-10, 10th fret, G, 9th in the bass, top note D, barred
- 13-12-12-12-13-13, 12th fret, F, root position, top note F, barred
- x-x-15-14-15-15, 14th fret, F, root position, top note G, barred
How to use F69
How you get to it. The turn that lands on F69 is Gm7 to C7 — the ii and the V of F — and C7 shares its third and seventh with Gm7, so the hand barely moves between them.
In which keys. Every note of F69 belongs to C major (the IV), D minor (the ♭III), F major (the I), G minor (the ♭VII), A minor (the ♭VI) and Bb major (the V).
What to play over F69
F69 is every note of the F major pentatonic, and nothing else. It also sits inside F major, F lydian, F mixolydian and F lydian dominant.
Chords near F69
Change one note of F69 and you have Fmaj9 (the sixth becomes the major seventh), Fmaj13 (add the major seventh), Fm69 (the major third becomes the minor third), Fadd9 (drop the sixth), F6 (drop the ninth) or F9 (the sixth becomes the flat seventh).
F69 is a major chord — root, major third, fifth. Major 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.