Space plays and stops
- Notes and intervals
- A#M3C##M3E##2G#m3B2C#
- Extends
- A# Dominant 7
A# Altered, written A#7alt, is built from A#, C##, E##, G#, B and C#: the root, major 3rd, sharp 5th, minor 7th, flat 9th and sharp 9th.
Its 3rd and 7th, C## and G#, 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. E7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for A#7alt as its tritone substitute.