Chord

B Dominant #9

  • B7#9
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
BM3D#m3F#m3A4D
Extends
B Dominant 7

B Dominant #9, written B7#9, is built from B, D#, F#, A and D: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and sharp 9th.

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#9 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    B Super Locrian

  2. Mode of Diminished

    B Half-Whole

    The diminished scale alternates whole steps and half steps to produce a symmetric scale...

Voicings All 8