Chord

Gb Dominant 13

  • Gb13
  • Gbdom13
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
GbM3Bbm3Dbm3FbM3Ab5Eb
Extends
Gb Dominant 7

Gb Dominant 13, written Gb13, is built from Gb, Bb, Db, Fb, Ab and Eb: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th, 9th and 13th.

Its 3rd and 7th, Bb and Fb, 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. C7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for Gb13 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Major

    Gb Mixolydian

  2. Mode of Dominant Bebop

    Gb Dominant Bebop

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

  3. Mode of Melodic Minor

    Gb Lydian Dominant

Voicings All 8