Fmaj7#5 guitar chord
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About Fmaj7#5 — inversions voicings
Fmaj7#5 is F, A, C# and E — 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 FM7#5, FΔ7#5, F+M7 or Fmaj7(#5).
What an inversion is
How to use Fmaj7#5
How you get to it. The turn that lands on Fmaj7#5 is to — the ii and the V of F — and shares its third and seventh with , so the hand barely moves between them.
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What to play over Fmaj7#5
Every note of Fmaj7#5 is in F lydian augmented.
Each of those is a page: the scale across the neck, and the chords it harmonises into — which is where Fmaj7#5 sits in it. Every scale.
Chords near Fmaj7#5
Change one note of Fmaj7#5 and you have (the sharp fifth becomes the fifth), (the sharp fifth becomes the flat fifth), (drop the major seventh), (the major seventh becomes the flat seventh) or (the sharp fifth becomes the fifth).
Fmaj7#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.