Dominant Chords – 11
Dominant 11 Chord
The dom 11 chord is simply the dom 9 chord with the 11th note added.
The 11th note is an octave higher than the 4th note (4 + 7 = 11).
Let’s use the C dom chord to show this:
C Dom 9
C Dom 11
Dom 11 Chord Formula:
The dom 11 chord formula is 1-3-5-b7-9-11 (i.e. the Root, 3rd, 5th, b7th, 9th, 11th and notes).
Important note:
For guitarists especially; extended chords can be more difficult to play as you only have a finite number of fingers and options to position them on the fretboard.
We recommend that you play dom 11 chords in root position only
(i.e. the root note being the lowest note in the chord).
You can use MusicWheels™ to discover all the other dominant 11 chords and their notes.
Guitar Diagrams
Dominant 11 Chords
Extended chords obviously contain more notes than triad chords.
It is also common practice to leave out some of the notes. If you wish to learn more about this, there are many advanced music theory sites to explore on the internet.
Here, we are only focusing on examples that are relatively easy to play and are moveable (generic) across the fretboard.
The diagram below shows 3 examples of the G11 (dom11) chord plus the generic dom11 shapes.
The blue note is the root note of the chord, for example:
– if you wish to play the C11 chord then the blue root note will be the note of C,
– if you wish to play the E11 chord then the blue root note will be the note of E, and so on.
Keyboard Diagrams
