Chord

G Dominant b13

  • G7b13
  • G7b6
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
GM3Bm3Dm3Fb7Eb
Extends
G Dominant 7

G Dominant b13, written G7b13, is built from G, B, D, F and Eb: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and flat 13th.

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. Db7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for G7b13 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    G Mixolydian b6

Voicings All 6