7#11 Chord on guitar

A 7#11 chord is a dominant 7th chord with a sharp eleventh, the bright Lydian dominant sound.

About the 7#11 Chord

C7#11 is C, E, G, Bb and F#.

The Lydian dominant scale fits it. The chord sounds bright and modern rather than bluesy.

It often stands in for a dominant chord a tritone away, such as Db7#11 in place of G7.

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
• #11: Sharp 11th, 18 semitones above the root

7#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 C7#11

Each of these scales, started on the root of C7#11, holds every note of the chord:

• C Lydian Minor scale
• C Taishikicho scale
• C Hungarian Major scale
• C Blues Scale with Both Thirds
• C Chromatic Blues Scale
• C Mixo-Blues Scale
• C Diminished scale
• C Overtone scale

More chord types

• 7#9 Chord (Hendrix Chord)
• 7b13 Chord
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