Fm69 guitar chord

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About Fm69

Fm69 is F, Ab, C, D and G. Start with and add the and .

Fm69 often works as a minor tonic, giving you a fuller version of that still feels like home. The natural 6th is central to that sound.

Compare it with to isolate the 6th. has the ; Fm69 has the instead. Those notes are a half step apart.

Hear the change

The flat 7th drops one fret to the 6th. These shapes leave out the 5th, making the change easy to hear.

Also written Fm6/9, Fmin6/9 or F-6/9.

Fm69 guitar chord diagram: F, Ab, C, D, G, played x8678x
Fm69 guitar chord voicing: x-8-6-7-8-x.

How to use Fm69

1A tonic minor chord

i in F minor

Fm69 is a tonic minor chord: it acts as the i of a minor key rather than a ii, and it has no seventh. It is the minor sixth chord with its root raised a whole step to the ninth.

Compare with

Listen for: The V’s fifth holds into the i as its ninth. On the minor sixth chord it falls a whole step to the root.

Heard in“Summertime”“Blue Bossa”“Invitation”“Alone Together”

In which keys. Every note of Fm69 belongs to C minor and Eb major.

What to play over Fm69

Useful scales

  • +BbEb

    Contains Fm69 and adds fourth and flat seventh.

  • +BbE

    Contains Fm69 and adds fourth and major seventh.

Every scale

Chords near Fm69

Change one note

  • 1st inversion
    1st inversion
    D → Eb

    Raise the sixth to the flat seventh.

    See Fm9 chord →
  • 1st inversion
    1st inversion
    D → E

    Replace the sixth with the major seventh.

    See FmMaj9 chord →

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.

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