Chord

A Dominant #9

  • A7#9
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
AM3C#m3Em3G4B#
Extends
A Dominant 7

A Dominant #9, written A7#9, is built from A, C#, E, G and B#: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th 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. Eb7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for A7#9 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    A Super Locrian

  2. Mode of Diminished

    A Half-Whole

    The diminished scale alternates whole steps and half steps to produce a symmetric scale...

Voicings All 8