Chord

Ab Dominant #11

  • Ab7#11
  • Ablyd7
  • Ablydiandom
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
AbM3Cm3Ebm3Gb#5D
Extends
Ab Dominant 7

Ab Dominant #11, written Ab7#11, is built from Ab, C, Eb, Gb and D: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and sharp 11th.

Its 3rd and 7th, C and Gb, 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. D7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for Ab7#11 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    Ab Lydian Dominant

Voicings All 12