Chord

Gb Dominant b13

  • Gb7b13
  • Gb7b6
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
GbM3Bbm3Dbm3Fbb7D
Extends
Gb Dominant 7

Gb Dominant b13, written Gb7b13, is built from Gb, Bb, Db, Fb and D: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and flat 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 Gb7b13 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    Gb Mixolydian b6

Voicings All 6