Guitar UpscaleMinor Add11 Chord (madd11) on guitar
A minor add11 chord adds the eleventh to a minor triad, an open, modern minor sound.
| Written as | Cmadd11 |
|---|---|
| Formula | 1 b3 5 11 |
| Notes in C | C Eb G F |
| Semitones from the root | 0, 3, 7, 17 |
About the Minor Add11 Chord
Amadd11 is A, C, E and D.
On a minor chord the 11th doesn't clash, so the chord sounds wide and calm.
Open string shapes on the high strings give this chord easily in Am and Em.
Intervals
- 1: Root, 0 semitones above the root
- b3: Minor 3rd, 3 semitones above the root
- 5: Perfect 5th, 7 semitones above the root
- 11: 11th, 17 semitones above the root
Minor Add11 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.
Cmadd11: C Eb G F
Gmadd11: G Bb D C
Dmadd11: D F A G
Amadd11: A C E D
Emadd11: E G B A
Bmadd11: B D F# E
F#madd11: F# A C# B
C#madd11: C# E G# F#
G#madd11: G# B D# C#
Ebmadd11: Eb Gb Bb Ab
Bbmadd11: Bb Db F Eb
Fmadd11: F Ab C Bb
Scales to play over Cmadd11
Each of these scales, started on C, holds every note of the chord:
- C Natural Minor (Aeolian)
- C Harmonic Minor
- C Phrygian Mode
- C Locrian with a Natural Fifth
- C Harmonic Minor Bebop
- C Harmonic Minor Bebop with a Raised Fourth
- C Melodic Minor
- C Dorian Mode
- C Minor Pentatonic
- C Adonai Malakh
- C Neapolitan Minor
- C Neapolitan Major
- C Algerian Scale
- C Javanese (Dorian b2)
- C Moorish Phrygian
- C Blues Scale
- C Blues Scale with a Major Seventh
- C Blues Scale with Both Thirds
- C Chromatic Blues Scale
- C Mixo-Blues Scale
- C Bebop Minor (Bebop Dorian)
- C Bebop Half Diminished