A sixth piano chord - A6
The A sixth chord is a 4-note chord consisting of the notes A, C#, E and F#.
You can see these notes highlighted in the interactive piano chart below.
The chord itself is often abbreviated as A6.
Interactive piano diagram for the A sixth chord
Extended Chords
Chords that are a superset of A6. The chords include more notes but always A, C#, E and F#.
Reduced chords
Chords that are a subset of A6. These contain less notes but all of them are included in A6.
Scales with A6
Below you find all scales that include A6:
- major pentatonic
- major
- major blues
- bebop
- lydian
- mixolydian
- scriabin
- lydian dominant
- hungarian major
- lydian #9
- bebop minor
- bebop major
- ichikosucho
- half-whole diminished
- kafi raga
- composite blues
- chromatic
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A sixth piano chord chart image
In case you prefer a non-interactive variant of the chord chart, we've embedded a PNG image below that shows the notes for the the A6 chord. Feel free to save or share the image as needed.