F#mMaj11 guitar chord
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About F#mMaj11 — uncommon voicings
F#mMaj11 is F#, A, C#, E#, G# and B — 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 F#mM11 or F#m(maj11).
What these less common shapes are
How to use F#mMaj11
How you get to it. The turn that lands on F#mMaj11 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 F#mMaj11
Every note of F#mMaj11 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 F#mMaj11 sits in it. Every scale.
Chords near F#mMaj11
Change one note of F#mMaj11 and you have (the minor third becomes the major third), (the major seventh becomes the flat seventh) or (drop the eleventh).
F#mMaj11 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.