Chord

A# Augmented 7

  • A#7#5
  • A#+7
  • A#7+
  • A#aug7
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Notes and intervals
A#M3C##M3E##2G#
Extends
A# Dominant 7

A# Augmented 7, written A#7#5, is built from A#, C##, E## and G#: the root, major 3rd, sharp 5th and minor 7th.

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#7#5 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Whole Tone

    A# Whole Tone

    The whole tone scale is in open, suspended harmony and works well with #5 chords.

  2. Mode of Melodic Minor

    A# Super Locrian

Voicings All 14