AmMaj11 guitar chord
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About AmMaj11 — drop 2 voicings
AmMaj11 is A, C, E, G#, B and D. It keeps every note of and adds the .
Keep the minor 3rd, major 7th, and 11th audible. On guitar, root and 5th can be left out to make room for those notes.
Also written AmM11 or Am(maj11).
What is drop 2
Stack the four notes closely, then drop the second voice from the top an octave. It typically lands on four adjacent strings: the guitar’s workhorse voicing.
That result, 5–R–3–7, is the shape usually meant by drop 2. Named by its bass note, as the inversions are here, it is the 2nd inversion.
How to use AmMaj11
How you get to it. The turn that lands on AmMaj11 is to : the ii and the V of A minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.
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What to play over AmMaj11
Useful scales
- +F
Contains AmMaj11 and adds flat thirteenth.
- +F#
Contains AmMaj11 and adds thirteenth.
Chords near AmMaj11
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The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.