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Chord

E# Dominant 7

  • E#7
  • E#dom
  • E#dom7
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Notes and intervals
E#M3G##m3B#m3D#

E# Dominant 7, written E#7, is built from E#, G##, B# and D#: the root, major 3rd, 5th and minor 7th.

Its 3rd and 7th, G## and D#, 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. B7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for E#7 as its tritone substitute.

In the progressions here, E#7 is the VII7 of the Coltrane Changes in F#.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Major

    E# Mixolydian

  2. Mode of Dominant Bebop

    E# Dominant Bebop

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

  3. Mode of Melodic Minor

    E# Lydian Dominant

  4. Mode of Blues

    E# Minor Blues

Voicings All 14