Voicing of Dominant b9

Type A

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Left hand
C3
Right hand
E4G4Bb4Db5
Family
4-Note Rootless (Type A/B)

The Type A voicing of C7b9 stacks E, G, Bb and Db from the bottom up: the major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and flat 9th of the chord. It leaves out the root, C, for the left hand or the bass player to take.

It's one of the 4-Note Rootless (Type A/B) voicings: four-note rootless voicings in their two forms, with the 3rd or the 7th on the bottom, played over the root. The other for C7b9 is Type B.