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D69 Guitar Chord

A fresh, optimistic sound without a seventh. Popular in jazz, bossa nova and country. Often used as a final chord instead of a plain major or maj7.

Guitar

Strings X–5–4–2–0–0

How to play the D69 chord on guitar

Read the string pattern X–5–4–2–0–0 from the low E string to the high E string. Numbers in the pattern are frets; numbers in the colored dots are left-hand fingers. X means a muted string and 0 means an open string.

6th string (low E) Muted
5th string (A) Fret 5 · pinky
4th string (D) Fret 4 · ring finger
3rd string (G) Fret 2 · index finger
2nd string (B) Open
1st string (high E) Open

Other names for the D69 chord

Other names: D6/9, D sixth ninth

Music theory name: sixth ninth chord

Common name: D 6/9 chord

Notes and intervals in the D69 chord

Note Interval
D Root
F# Major 3rd
A Perfect 5th
B Major 6th
E Major 9th

All variations

Fret 2
X–5–4–2–0–0
Fret 4
X–5–4–4–5–5
Fret 9
10–9–9–9–10–10
Fret 11
X–12–12–11–12–12

More chords with D as the root

The same chord type in other keys