Dm11 guitar chord

11th in bass · G in the bass
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About Dm11 — inversions voicings

Dm11 is D, F, A, C, E and G. It keeps every note of and adds the .

The minor 3rd stays in the chord, so this is not a suspension. It works well when one minor harmony holds for several bars, including modal vamps.

Also written Dmin11, D-11 or D minor 11.

Dm11 inversions guitar chord diagram: D, F, A, C, E, G, played xx5563
Dm11 inversions guitar chord voicing: x-x-5-5-6-3.

What an inversion is

How to use Dm11

1Slide the whole chord

i – ♭ii – i (planing)

Modal tunes sit on one chord for bars at a time, and Dm11 is their sound. The harmony stays put, so the voicing moves instead: the whole shape slides a half step and back.

Listen for: Every voice moves together, a half step up and back. The shape never changes.

Heard in“So What” (in a voicing without the ninth)

In which keys. Every note of Dm11 belongs to C major, D minor, F major and A minor.

What to play over Dm11

Useful scales

Every scale

Chords near Dm11

Remove a note

Change one note

  • open strings
    open strings
    C → C#

    Raise the flat seventh to the major seventh.

    See DmMaj11 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

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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