AmMaj11 guitar chord

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About AmMaj11

AmMaj11 is A, C, E, G#, B and D. It keeps every note of and adds the .

Keep the minor 3rd, major 7th, and 11th audible. On guitar, root and 5th can be left out to make room for those notes.

Also written AmM11 or Am(maj11).

AmMaj11 guitar chord diagram: A, C, E, G#, B, D, played x00110
AmMaj11 guitar chord voicing: x-0-0-1-1-0.

How to use AmMaj11

How you get to it. The turn that lands on AmMaj11 is to : the ii and the V of A minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.

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What to play over AmMaj11

Useful scales

Every scale

Chords near AmMaj11

Remove a note

Change one note

  • open strings
    open strings
    C → C#

    Raise the minor third to the major third.

    See Amaj11 chord →
  • open strings
    open strings
    G# → G

    Lower the major seventh to the flat seventh.

    See Am11 chord →

Minor 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.

Midi Settings

7.5
Play Style
One pass of the pick from the lowest string up, everything left ringing.
Instrument
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Style

Shows each chord the way this style would voice it, and marks which of its alternatives belong to the idiom.

Layout

Left Handed Mode