Six String Guitar · DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD)

Cm6C Minor 6th

CRoot

D♯tone

Gtone

Atone

Formula 1 · ♭3 · 5 · 6 · Notes C · D♯ · G · A

How to play it

Cm6 fingering positions

DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD), low E on the left. Each dot is colour-coded by note — the ringed dot is the root. Numbers below show the fret per string (x = muted).

C Minor 6th guitar chord — Open (x 3 x 0 0 1) fretboard diagram in DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD)

C Minor 6th guitar chord — Open (x 3 1 0 0 x) fretboard diagram in DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD)

C Minor 6th guitar chord — Open (x 3 1 0 0 1) fretboard diagram in DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD)

C Minor 6th guitar chord — 7th position (10 x x 8 10 7) fretboard diagram in DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD)

C Minor 6th guitar chord — 7th position (10 x 7 8 10 x) fretboard diagram in DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD)

C Minor 6th guitar chord — 7th position (10 10 x 8 x 7) fretboard diagram in DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD)

C Minor 6th guitar chord — 7th position (10 10 7 8 x x) fretboard diagram in DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD)

C Minor 6th guitar chord — 7th position (x x 10 8 10 7) fretboard diagram in DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD)

Read it as tab

Cm6 guitar tab

The same voicings in tablature — high e on top, low E on the bottom. Each fret number is colour-coded by note; the ringed number is the root, × means don’t play that string.

C Minor 6th guitar tab — Open (x 3 x 0 0 1) in DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD)

C Minor 6th guitar tab — Open (x 3 1 0 0 x) in DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD)

C Minor 6th guitar tab — Open (x 3 1 0 0 1) in DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD)

C Minor 6th guitar tab — 7th position (10 x x 8 10 7) in DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD)

C Minor 6th guitar tab — 7th position (10 x 7 8 10 x) in DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD)

C Minor 6th guitar tab — 7th position (10 10 x 8 x 7) in DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD)

C Minor 6th guitar tab — 7th position (10 10 7 8 x x) in DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD)

C Minor 6th guitar tab — 7th position (x x 10 8 10 7) in DADGAD Tuning (DADGAD)

Sound

How Cm6 sounds

Consonance

3/ 5

Brightness

DarkBright

Character

Moods & genres

Moods

bittersweetmysteriousnoir

Genres

jazzfilm scorebossa nova

Theory

Notes & relationships

NotesC · D♯ · G · A

Formula (scale degrees)1 · ♭3 · 5 · 6

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