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Chord

E Dominant 9

  • E9
  • Edom9
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
EM3G#m3Bm3DM3F#
Extends
E Dominant 7

E Dominant 9, written E9, is built from E, G#, B, D and F#: 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. Bb7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for E9 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