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Richard Barrett

What are 6/9 chords? Meet 5 chord shapes that make perfect set closers – and murder mystery soundtracks

Brian Setzer has some fun as he wears a red neckerchief and plays a round-up orange Gretsch onstage.

Sometimes, when music theory ties us in knots, it’s good to remember that so much of what we’re dealing with is just names for sounds. And sometimes those names struggle to keep up with the complexities of music as much as we do!

One term that can throw people at first is the 6/9 chord, so this feature will attempt to dispel any mystery about them and their possible variants.

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