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Dm6 Guitar Chord

A dramatic minor chord with an added major sixth. Typical of jazz, tango and film music. The sixth gives the minor chord a distinctive urgency.

Guitar

Strings X–X–0–2–0–1

How to play the Dm6 chord on guitar

Read the string pattern X–X–0–2–0–1 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) Do not play
5th string (A) Do not play
4th string (D) Play open
3rd string (G) Fret 2 · middle finger
2nd string (B) Play open
1st string (high E) Fret 1 · index finger

Notation for Dm6 chord

Other names: D minor 6th

Music theory name: minor sixth chord

Common name: D minor sixth chord

Intervals and tones in Dm6 chord

Note Interval
D Root
F Minor 3rd
A Perfect 5th
H Major 6th

All Variations

Open
X–X–0–2–0–1
Fret 3
X–5–3–4–3–5
Fret 5
X–5–7–X–6–7
Fret 9
10–X–9–10–10–10

More chords with D as the root

The same chord type in other keys

Songs using Dm6

Veličenstvo kat
Karel Kryl
Chci tě líbat
Václav Neckář
Siluety
Mandrage
Prsa
Michal Horák
Ďáblovo stádo /Starý honec krav/
Rudolf Cortés, Waldemar Matuška
The Other Side
Filmová hudba
Song abonenta jihozápadní dráhy
Hoboes
Pohádka
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