Chord

B Dominant b13

  • B7b13
  • B7b6
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
BM3D#m3F#m3Ab7G
Extends
B Dominant 7

B Dominant b13, written B7b13, is built from B, D#, F#, A and G: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and flat 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 B7b13 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    B Mixolydian b6

Voicings All 6