In episode 185 of the Guitar Music Theory podcast, I answer Desi Cerna, and this is the place to nerd out on guitar music, discover how your

favorite songs work, and learn how to guide your playing in the right direction. In today's

episode, I answer listener questions, spending most time breaking down how six chords are used

and demonstrating their sound with familiar songs. I play using the PRS Miles Kennedy's signature model guitar and talk about its features and range of tones.

It's going to be a great discussion, but before we dive in, head over to my website,

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And one more final announcement,

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get your copy today. All right, we are ready to dive in to our first main question.

And I'm going to paraphrase this just to make it a little more concise and clear.

So this comes from Eva and she says, Hi, Desi, I'm trying to understand what a

six chord actually is. My assumption is that you take a major chord and add the sixth, but that

raises a question for me. The fifth and the sixth are only a whole step apart, so wouldn't that

creates some dissonance? From what I found,

a six chord includes the intervals one, three, five, and six, but when I look up ways to play a

six chord on guitar, some of the voicings don't include the fifth at all. So I'm wondering why that

note is sometimes left out. I also came across the

idea that a C6 chord contains the same notes as an A minor 7 chord. That makes sense to me

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