Chord

B Dominant 13

  • B13
  • Bdom13
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
BM3D#m3F#m3AM3C#5G#
Extends
B Dominant 7

B Dominant 13, written B13, is built from B, D#, F#, A, C# and G#: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th, 9th and 13th.

Its 3rd and 7th, D# and A, 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. F7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for B13 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Major

    B Mixolydian

  2. Mode of Dominant Bebop

    B Dominant Bebop

    The dominant bebop scale adds a major 7th passing tone to the Mixolydian mode, so that ...

  3. Mode of Melodic Minor

    B Lydian Dominant

Voicings All 8