Chord

Bb Dominant #11

  • Bb7#11
  • Bblyd7
  • Bblydiandom
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
BbM3Dm3Fm3Ab#5E
Extends
Bb Dominant 7

Bb Dominant #11, written Bb7#11, is built from Bb, D, F, Ab and E: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and sharp 11th.

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 Bb7#11 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    Bb Lydian Dominant

Voicings All 12