guitar chord
D6
A major triad with a sixth added. The same four notes as a minor seventh chord a third below.
Every fingering that fits a hand
xx0202
open
x50202
easy
xx0402
easy · no 5
x50402
easy · no 5
x54405
moderate
What is true of it
D6 is D, F♯, A and B — 1, 3, 5 and 6 counted from D.
These are also the notes of Bm7/D. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.
On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.
The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is xx0202: 2 fingers, held at the 2nd fret.
1 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.
2 strings stay silent.
Where its notes are on the neck
The brass dots are D, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.
With a different note underneath
D6/F♯
200202
D6/A
x00202
D6/B
x20202
An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.