Bmaj11 guitar chord
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About Bmaj11 — drop 3 voicings
Bmaj11 is B, D#, F#, A#, C# and E. Its natural is the same note name as the 4th, while the major 3rd remains.
In a close voicing, sits one fret above . A sharp 11th raises that note one more fret; Bmaj11 calls for the natural 11th.
Let both notes sound only when you want that close interval heard. For the sharp 11th instead, played without a 5th, the chord is .
Also written BM11, BΔ11 or B major 11.
What is drop 3
Drop the third voice from the top an octave instead. The wider gap skips a string, so the muted string is part of the shape.
That result, 3–R–5–7, is the shape usually meant by drop 3. Named by its bass note, as the inversions are here, it is the 1st inversion.
More familiar jazz shapes are drop 3 than drop 2.
How to use Bmaj11
How you get to it. The turn that lands on Bmaj11 is to — the ii and the V of B — and shares its third and seventh with , so the hand barely moves between them.
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In which keys. Every note of Bmaj11 belongs to Ab minor (the ♭III) and B major (the I, the tonic).
What to play over Bmaj11
Useful scales
- +G#
Contains Bmaj11 and adds thirteenth.
Chords near Bmaj11
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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.