13#11 Chord on guitar

A 13#11 chord stacks the ninth, sharp eleventh and thirteenth on a dominant 7th chord, the full Lydian dominant sound.

About the 13#11 Chord

C13#11 is C, E, G, Bb, D, F# and A. With seven notes, it holds the whole Lydian dominant scale.

A guitar has six strings, so the shapes below drop the 5th.

It sounds bright and open, and fits over a dominant chord that stays put.

Intervals

• 1: Root, 0 semitones above the root
• 3: Major 3rd, 4 semitones above the root
• 5: Perfect 5th, 7 semitones above the root
• b7: Minor 7th, 10 semitones above the root
• 9: 9th, 14 semitones above the root
• #11: Sharp 11th, 18 semitones above the root
• 13: 13th, 21 semitones above the root

13#11 Chord charts in all 12 keys

Each chart shows the strings from the thick low E on the left to the thin high e on the right. Numbers in the dots are fingers: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 little, T thumb. × marks a muted string and ○ an open one. A bar across strings is a barre.

Scales to play over C13#11

Each of these scales, started on the root of C13#11, holds every note of the chord:

• C Taishikicho scale
• C Overtone scale

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