Bmaj7#5 guitar chord
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About Bmaj7#5 — inversions voicings
Bmaj7#5 is B, D#, G and A# — 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 BM7#5, BΔ7#5, B+M7 or Bmaj7(#5).
What an inversion is
How to use Bmaj7#5
How you get to it. The turn that lands on Bmaj7#5 is to — the ii and the V of B — and shares its third and seventh with , so the hand barely moves between them.
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What to play over Bmaj7#5
Every note of Bmaj7#5 is in B lydian augmented.
Each of those is a page: the scale across the neck, and the chords it harmonises into — which is where Bmaj7#5 sits in it. Every scale.
Chords near Bmaj7#5
Change one note of Bmaj7#5 and you have (the sharp fifth becomes the fifth), (the sharp fifth becomes the flat fifth), (drop the major seventh) or (the major seventh becomes the flat seventh).
Bmaj7#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.