F11 guitar chord

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About F11 — root position

A practical way to hear F11 is as held over the original root. The upper shape supplies the flat seventh, ninth, and : F, C, Eb, G and Bb.

Because that upper shape omits the dominant’s major third, the chord remains suspended. This bass-plus-shape sound is used mainly as V.

Also written F9sus4 or F dominant 11.

F11 root position guitar chord diagram: F, C, Eb, G, Bb, played x8888x
F11 root position guitar chord voicing: x-8-8-8-8-x.

What root position means

F11 in root position puts F in the bass, which is the chord as it is spelled: the note it is named after underneath everything else.

8 of F11’s 12 shapes do this:111211x87866x8x886x8886xx-8-8-8-10-8x8888xx-8-10-8-11-x13-x-13-12-11-x

How to use F11

1In place of the ii

V in B♭ major

F11 has the notes of the ii over the V’s root, so it can take the ii’s bar: F11, then F9, then Bb. The eleventh gives way to the third, and the V resolves as usual.

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Listen for: The eleventh falls a half step to the third, then rises a half step into the root of the I.

In which keys. Every note of F11 belongs to C minor, Eb major, F minor, G minor, Ab major and Bb major.

What to play over F11

Useful scales

  • +AD

    Contains F11 and adds major third and thirteenth.

  • +AbDb

    Contains F11 and adds minor third and flat thirteenth.

  • +AbD

    Contains F11 and adds minor third and thirteenth.

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