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- Notes and intervals
- DM3F#2AbM3C
- Extends
- D Dominant 7
D Dominant b5, written D7b5, is built from D, F#, Ab and C: the root, major 3rd, flat 5th and minor 7th.
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. Ab7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for D7b5 as its tritone substitute.