Chord

Db Dominant b5

  • Db7b5
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
DbM3F2AbbM3Cb
Extends
Db Dominant 7

Db Dominant b5, written Db7b5, is built from Db, F, Abb and Cb: the root, major 3rd, flat 5th and minor 7th.

Its 3rd and 7th, F and Cb, 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. G7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for Db7b5 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    Db Lydian Dominant

  2. Mode of Whole Tone

    Db Whole Tone

    The whole tone scale is in open, suspended harmony and works well with #5 chords.

Voicings All 14