FmMaj11 guitar chord
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About FmMaj11 — inversions voicings
FmMaj11 is F, Ab, C, E, G and Bb — with the eleventh added on top.
It sounds dense and unresolved. The melodic minor tonic with most of the scale showing — more a texture than a chord to comp on.
Minor tonic — the melodic minor as far up as a guitar carries it.
Also written FmM11 or Fm(maj11).
What an inversion is
How to use FmMaj11
How you get to it. The turn that lands on FmMaj11 is to : the ii and the V of F minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.
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What to play over FmMaj11
Every note of FmMaj11 is in F harmonic minor and F melodic minor.
Each of those is a page: the scale across the neck, and the chords it harmonises into — which is where FmMaj11 sits in it. Every scale.
Chords near FmMaj11
Change one note of FmMaj11 and you have (the minor third becomes the major third), (the major seventh becomes the flat seventh) or (drop the eleventh).
FmMaj11 is a minor chord — root, minor third, fifth. 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.