Chord

Cb Dominant b13

  • Cb7b13
  • Cb7b6
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
CbM3Ebm3Gbm3Bbbb7G
Extends
Cb Dominant 7

Cb Dominant b13, written Cb7b13, is built from Cb, Eb, Gb, Bbb and G: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and flat 13th.

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 Cb7b13 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    Cb Mixolydian b6

Voicings All 6