m6 chords

[Aaron Saunders]

If one sees a minor 6 chord, do you play the minor sixth, or the minor third and the major sixth? I seem to remember it being something like the latter, although the former makes a lot more sense.
Is this like the chord symbol to play a dorian? This would make sense, with the minor 3rd/major 6th format. I ask because I was fiddling around last night with some arpeggios while listening to A Night In Tunisia, and I played an Eb7 arpeggio at the same time as the piano did it (completely unintentionally, I was just walking them up the neck) and so I thought I'd try and figure out the rest of it. I opened the fakebooks I have with that song in it and the following chord is a Dm6 -- and it sounds right when I play D-F-A-B-A. Is this correct?

[Eli M.]

Play the minor third and the major sixth.

[Aaron Saunders]

Huzzah! Thank ya muchly.


EDIT: So how would you write something that used the minor 6th? Dm+5?

[Gomex]

That would imply the chord has a raised 5th instead of a flat 6, which is fine but if you want the unaltered 5th as well as the flat 6th you'd write it as Dm b13

[Aaron Saunders]

Ahhh...thanks, Gomex!