Chord

Fb Dominant 7

  • Fb7
  • Fbdom
  • Fbdom7
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
FbM3Abm3Cbm3Ebb

Fb Dominant 7, written Fb7, is built from Fb, Ab, Cb and Ebb: the root, major 3rd, 5th and minor 7th.

Its 3rd and 7th, Ab and Ebb, 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 Fb7 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Major

    E Mixolydian

  2. Mode of Dominant Bebop

    Fb Dominant Bebop

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

  3. Mode of Melodic Minor

    Fb Lydian Dominant

  4. Mode of Blues

    E Minor Blues

Voicings All 14