Chord

D# Dominant b13

  • D#7b13
  • D#7b6
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
D#M3F##m3A#m3C#b7B
Extends
D# Dominant 7

D# Dominant b13, written D#7b13, is built from D#, F##, A#, C# and B: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and flat 13th.

Its 3rd and 7th, F## and C#, 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. A7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for D#7b13 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    D# Mixolydian b6

Voicings All 6