Dominant thirteenth sharp eleventh chord

A dominant thirteenth sharp eleventh chord is composed using a root/1^st, major 3^rd, perfect 5^th, minor 7^th, major 9^th, augmented 11^th and major 13^th (or R/1-3-5-♭7-9-♯11-13) intervals played simultaneously. Generally written as C^13(♯11) or Cdom^13(♯11), it is good practice to simply use an uppercase C followed by a super scripted ^13(♯11) to represent it in writing (ie: C^13(♯11)).

A dominant thirteenth sharp eleventh chord comes about due to the dissonance created between the major third and perfect eleventh (perfect fourth) intervals in a dominant thirteenth chord voiced with an eleventh interval included. Normally, we omit the eleventh from major and dominant thirteenth voicings due to this dissonance, and limitation of six notes on a six string guitar, alternatively we can sharpen the eleventh and remove the fifth or ninth intervals, the dominant thirteenth sharp eleventh chord is a result of this latter process.

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