Chord

Cb Dominant 9

  • Cb9
  • Cbdom9
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
CbM3Ebm3Gbm3BbbM3Db
Extends
Cb Dominant 7

Cb Dominant 9, written Cb9, is built from Cb, Eb, Gb, Bbb and Db: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and 9th.

Its 3rd and 7th, Eb and Bbb, 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 Cb9 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Major

    Cb Mixolydian

  2. Mode of Dominant Bebop

    Cb Dominant Bebop

    The dominant bebop scale adds a major 7th passing tone to the Mixolydian mode, so that ...

  3. Mode of Melodic Minor

    Cb Lydian Dominant

Voicings All 8