Chord

G# Dominant 9

  • G#9
  • G#dom9
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
G#M3B#m3D#m3F#M3A#
Extends
G# Dominant 7

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

Its 3rd and 7th, B# and F#, 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. D7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for G#9 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Major

    G# Mixolydian

  2. Mode of Dominant Bebop

    G# Dominant Bebop

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

  3. Mode of Melodic Minor

    G# Lydian Dominant

Voicings All 8