C13 is a dominant stretched across six different notes: C, E, G, Bb, D and A. Its distant voices are and .
On guitar, keep the third and flat seventh, then make room by dropping the root or fifth. The upper voices can carry a jazz cadence around that shell.
Also written Cdom13 or C dominant 13.
The bassist has the root, and the guide tones imply it anyway. The freed finger adds a tension. Playing solo, keep the root and drop something else.
In a jazz ii–V–I all three chords usually carry tensions: Gm9, C13, Fmaj9 rather than bare sevenths. The thirteenth is the ii’s ninth held over the barline, and it falls a step to the ninth of the I.
Listen for: The ii’s ninth holds as the V’s thirteenth, then falls a whole step to the ninth of the I. Underneath, the guide tones step down as usual.
In which keys. Every note of C13 belongs to D minor and F major.
Contains C13 and adds eleventh.
Adds sharp eleventh, for a dominant sharp-eleventh color.
The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.
Shows each chord the way this style would voice it, and marks which of its alternatives belong to the idiom.