F#11 guitar chord

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About F#11

A practical way to hear F#11 is as held over the original root. The upper shape supplies the flat seventh, ninth, and : F#, C#, E, G# and B.

Because that upper shape omits the dominant’s major third, the chord remains suspended. This bass-plus-shape sound is used mainly as V.

Also written F#9sus4 or F# dominant 11.

F#11 guitar chord diagram: F#, C#, E, G#, B, played x9999x
F#11 guitar chord voicing: x-9-9-9-9-x.

How to use F#11

1In place of the ii

V in B major

F#11 has the notes of the ii over the V’s root, so it can take the ii’s bar: F#11, then F#9, then B. The eleventh gives way to the third, and the V resolves as usual.

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Listen for: The eleventh falls a half step to the third, then rises a half step into the root of the I.

In which keys. Every note of F#11 belongs to C# minor, E major, F# minor, Ab minor, A major and B major.

What to play over F#11

Useful scales

  • +A#D#

    Contains F#11 and adds major third and thirteenth.

  • +AD

    Contains F#11 and adds minor third and flat thirteenth.

  • +AD#

    Contains F#11 and adds minor third and thirteenth.

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Dominant seventh chords on every root

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