Chord

A Dominant b13

  • A7b13
  • A7b6
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
AM3C#m3Em3Gb7F
Extends
A Dominant 7

A Dominant b13, written A7b13, is built from A, C#, E, G and F: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and flat 13th.

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. Eb7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for A7b13 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    A Mixolydian b6

Voicings All 6