Chord

Bb Dominant b13

  • Bb7b13
  • Bb7b6
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
BbM3Dm3Fm3Abb7Gb
Extends
Bb Dominant 7

Bb Dominant b13, written Bb7b13, is built from Bb, D, F, Ab and Gb: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and flat 13th.

Its 3rd and 7th, D and Ab, 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. E7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for Bb7b13 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    Bb Mixolydian b6

Voicings All 6