Am6 arpeggio & chord for gypsy jazz

The Am6 arpeggio is built from the notes A (R), C (♭3), E (5), F# (6). On Haute Gitanerie you can see it across the whole guitar neck — contained position boxes, long diagonal forms, and its parent scale (A Dorian) — with note names in English (C D E) or solfège (Do Ré Mi).

The Am6 chord

The Am6 chord voicing uses those same notes (A (R), C (♭3), E (5), F# (6)). Switch the fretboard to Chords to see gypsy-jazz voicings for Am6, or keep Arpeggio to practise the tones one at a time — same shape, two ways to hear it.

How to practise the Am6 arpeggio

Start with a contained position box near the low strings, then move it up the neck fret by fret, or follow a diagonal form for a two-octave sweep in the manouche style. Every note is labelled with its interval (R, ♭3, 5, 6), so you always know where the root, third, fifth sit.

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Manouche alternatives

Am6 · Am6/9