Chord

Dominant #11

  • 7#11
  • lyd7
  • lydiandom
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
CM3Em3Gm3Bb#5F#
Extends
Dominant 7

C Dominant #11, written C7#11, is built from C, E, G, Bb and F#: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and sharp 11th.

Its 3rd and 7th, E and Bb, are its guide tones: they say what kind of chord it is, so voicings are built around them and the root is often left to the bass. Gb7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for C7#11 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    C Lydian Dominant

Voicings All 12