Does anyone know exactly when the Major 6 chord went out the window?
When I'm working I often have a "Swing/Big Band" music station set on the TV, and I hear M6 chords all over the place. You never hear it anymore unless you're hearing/playing a swing classic.

I use them all the time in my arrangements. However, I do come from a jazz guitar and big band tradition.

-Eric

In my devil worship band we play Major666 chords all the time...

Same here. Use maj6-chords often. But they are not heard on the radio in hit list music much these days. Mostly straight major and minor chords there. Must have vanished when they stopped playing Chicago tunes on the radio.

667. The neighbor of the beast.....

Hmm I thought the major 6th has rather been reincarnated as its inversion the minor 7th and is alive and well.

(dont forget hawain/ pasific island music for M6 chords as well ...when ukeleles come out so does the M6)

Tristan

Silly Greg.

Actually I think Stephen Sondheim killed the Maj6 chord.

Of course enharmonically it is the relative minor7
CEGA=ACEG
Steve A

Luc,

665- not quite so evil.... ( T-Shirt I once saw)

Blame distortion- early in my formative years I read Eddie Van Halen once say "you can't play a maj 7th with distortion all the harmonics start clashing and going all over the place" so I guess the 6th same thing. .

so Luc, brave on- play that 6th, wait better yet play that major 6/9 with pride. the sixth has a very soothing quality and even Brian Setzer used it to good advantage.

hit it up with some chorus and some delay, no mountains, just peppered enough, and play to your heart and soothed minds content.

here's one of my favorite tunes with a whole lotta 6ths.....brgnnn... whole lotta 6ths.... brgnnnn
"I Am Yours" - by Derek and the Dominos ( Eric Clapton's pseudonym band testing to see if the public loved him for his true creativity vs. his "Clapton is god" status at the time- nice work if you can get it!
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOiDF-BkeIo[/youtube]

hope it helps,
Dave B