Dominant family
A dominant eleventh chord
A11A dominant eleventh
Piano root position
- Root
- 5
- ♭7
- 9
- 11
Guitar standard tuning
Barre · fret 12
Lay your index flat across strings 5 to 1 at fret 12.
Finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 little
Notation treble clef
Intervals
12 semitones- A1
- ♭2
- B9
- ♭3
- 3
- D11
- ♭5
- E5
- ♯5
- 6
- G♭7
- 7
- A Root
- E Perfect 5th
- G Minor 7th
- B Major 9th
- D Perfect 11th
About this chord
What is an A dominant eleventh chord?
A11 is built from 5 notes: A (the root), E (the 5), G (the ♭7), B (the 9), D (the 11). Root, fifth, flat seventh, ninth and eleventh: played without the third, which would clash with the eleventh.
- Notes
- A · E · G · B · D
- Formula
- 1 · 5 · ♭7 · 9 · 11
- Also written
- Adom11
- Found in
- Outside the major and minor keys
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