Fmaj11 guitar chord
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About Fmaj11 — uncommon voicings
Fmaj11 is F, A, C, E, G and Bb — with the eleventh added — the note that fights the major third.
It sounds unsettled, and grittier than the rest of the major family. Most players drop the third or raise the eleventh instead, which is how you arrive at a sus chord or at maj7♯11.
Tonic, awkwardly — the eleventh sits a semitone above the third.
Also written FM11, FΔ11 or F major 11.
What these less common shapes are
How to use Fmaj11
How you get to it. The turn that lands on Fmaj11 is to — the ii and the V of F — and shares its third and seventh with , so the hand barely moves between them.
Hear it land:→→
In which keys. Every note of Fmaj11 belongs to D minor (the ♭III) and F major (the I, the tonic).
What to play over Fmaj11
Every note of Fmaj11 is in F major.
Each of those is a page: the scale across the neck, and the chords it harmonises into — which is where Fmaj11 sits in it. Every scale.
Chords near Fmaj11
Change one note of Fmaj11 and you have (drop the eleventh), (the eleventh becomes the thirteenth) or (the major third becomes the minor third).
Fmaj11 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.