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- Dominant 7
C Dominant b9, written C7b9, is built from C, E, G, Bb and Db: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and flat 9th.
Its 3rd and 7th, E and Bb, 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. Gb7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for C7b9 as its tritone substitute.
In the progressions here, C7b9 is the V7♭9 of the Minor ii-V to Major Progression in F.