Chord

E Dominant b13

  • E7b13
  • E7b6
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
EM3G#m3Bm3Db7C
Extends
E Dominant 7

E Dominant b13, written E7b13, is built from E, G#, B, D and C: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and flat 13th.

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 E7b13 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    E Mixolydian b6

Voicings All 6