DmMaj11 guitar chord

Shell · Root position
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About DmMaj11 — shell voicings

DmMaj11 is D, F, A, C#, E and G. 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 DmM11 or Dm(maj11).

DmMaj11 shell guitar chord diagram: D, F, A, C#, E, G, played x5x663
DmMaj11 shell guitar chord voicing: x-5-x-6-6-3.

What is a shell voicing

Shell voicing
R35♭7

Root, 3rd and 7th. The 3rd and 7th set the quality; the 5th adds nothing, so it goes. That frees a string for a tension.

How to use DmMaj11

How you get to it. The turn that lands on DmMaj11 is to : the ii and the V of D minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.

Hear it land:→→

What to play over DmMaj11

Useful scales

Every scale

Chords near DmMaj11

Change one note

  • open strings
    open strings
    F → F#

    Raise the minor third to the major third.

    See Dmaj11 chord →
  • open strings
    open strings
    C# → C

    Lower the major seventh to the flat seventh.

    See Dm11 chord →

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.

Midi Settings

7.5
Play Style
One pass of the pick from the lowest string up, everything left ringing.
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Style

Shows each chord the way this style would voice it, and marks which of its alternatives belong to the idiom.

Layout

Left Handed Mode