Bbmaj13 guitar chord
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About Bbmaj13 — inversions voicings
Bbmaj13 is Bb, D, F, A, C and G — with the thirteenth on top, and the eleventh left out.
It sounds full and wide open. Everything the major scale offers except the eleventh, which is left out because it fights the third.
Tonic — the major sound with most of the scale showing.
Also written BbM13, BbΔ13 or Bb major 13.
What an inversion is
How to use Bbmaj13
How you get to it. The turn that lands on Bbmaj13 is to — the ii and the V of Bb — and shares its third and seventh with , so the hand barely moves between them.
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In which keys. Every note of Bbmaj13 belongs to D minor (the ♭VI), F major (the IV, the subdominant), G minor (the ♭III) and Bb major (the I, the tonic).
What to play over Bbmaj13
Every note of Bbmaj13 is in Bb major and Bb lydian.
Each of those is a page: the scale across the neck, and the chords it harmonises into — which is where Bbmaj13 sits in it. Every scale.
Chords near Bbmaj13
Change one note of Bbmaj13 and you have (drop the thirteenth), (the thirteenth becomes the eleventh), (drop the major seventh) or (the major seventh becomes the flat seventh).
Bbmaj13 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.