Chord

B Dominant #11

  • B7#11
  • Blyd7
  • Blydiandom
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
BM3D#m3F#m3A#5E#
Extends
B Dominant 7

B Dominant #11, written B7#11, is built from B, D#, F#, A and E#: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and sharp 11th.

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 B7#11 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    B Lydian Dominant

Voicings All 12