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Chord

E# Dominant 9

  • E#9
  • E#dom9
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
E#M3G##m3B#m3D#M3G
Extends
E# Dominant 7

E# Dominant 9, written E#9, is built from E#, G##, B#, D# and G: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and 9th.

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#9 as its tritone substitute.

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

Voicings All 8