Amaj7#5 guitar chord
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About Amaj7#5 — uncommon voicings
Amaj7#5 is A, C#, E# and G# — with the fifth raised a semitone.
It sounds weightless, with no pull in it. Unlike an aug7 there is no flat seventh dragging it anywhere, so it colours a tonic rather than replacing it with a dominant.
Tonic — the lydian augmented sound.
Also written AM7#5, AΔ7#5, A+M7 or Amaj7(#5).
What these less common shapes are
How to use Amaj7#5
How you get to it. The turn that lands on Amaj7#5 is to — the ii and the V of A — and shares its third and seventh with , so the hand barely moves between them.
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What to play over Amaj7#5
Every note of Amaj7#5 is in A lydian augmented.
Each of those is a page: the scale across the neck, and the chords it harmonises into — which is where Amaj7#5 sits in it. Every scale.
Chords near Amaj7#5
Change one note of Amaj7#5 and you have (the sharp fifth becomes the fifth), (the sharp fifth becomes the flat fifth), (drop the major seventh), (the major seventh becomes the flat seventh), (the major seventh becomes the fifth) or (the sharp fifth becomes the fifth).
Amaj7#5 is a major chord — root, major third, fifth. Major chords on every root.
The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.