Chord

A Major 7 #11

  • Amaj7#11
  • AM7#11
  • Amajor7#11
  • Alyd
  • Alydian
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
AM3C#2D#m2EM3G#
Extends
A Major 7

A Major 7 #11, written Amaj7#11, is built from A, C#, D#, E and G#: the root, major 3rd, sharp 11th, 5th and major 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.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Major

    A Lydian

Voicings All 6