D11 chord.

[crowdpleeser]

What are all the different spellings for the d11 chord?

[sft42]

straying into dangerous ground here we go again....when you add a note more than an octave above the root note of a triad (three note chord) you produce an extended chord a 2nd note an octave above produces an ninth chord and a 4th note makes an eleventh..there are three families of these chords Major Minor and Dominant which are obtained by adding the extra note to the Major 7th, Minor 7th and dominant 7th respectively. The tonality of the third and seventh determines the tonality of the extended chord...when both are minor the chord belongs to the minor family....when the 3rd is major but the 7th is minor it belongs to the dominant family....as obviously when both are major it belongs to the major family. By raising or lowering the 5th of the original triad you get altered extended chord but your straying into the Jazz world here (Nice!) To give an example....a C major triad is comprised of C E and G...the 7th is added Bb...and then to get the niinth a D is added and finally a F is added to get your 11th chord.

[sft42]

Sorry just realised i didn't make something very clear...as 7th chords are the base of the extended chord you should be aware that in a standard C7 chord the Bb note makes this a Dominant seventh and the plain written C11 will be constructed from this....so a D11 will be constructed with the notes D,F#,A,C,E and G...and I've also noticed i might have given a very long winded answer when all you wanted to know is the variant ways of writing the chord form...so it can be written like this.....dominant - D11....minor - Dm11....major - Dmaj9+11 or /\9+11..hope this helps!

[crowdpleeser]

lol, that first answer made me laugh really hard. But in fact it really does show up my lack of theory. I got lost on the second line. All I know is triads, and the I III and V relationship. (I think it's Root Tonic and Dominant relationship). But yeah, I just wanted to know what the D11 chord was cos I've got a song which has it in it, and I've lost my chord book. Ok cheers.

[sft42]

Your welcome CrowdP....if your playing a standard tuned guitar then although it sounds like a hard chord to play it's quite easy.....6th string 2nd fret.....2nd string 1st fret.....that's it! It sounds Much better with the F# as the bass note rather than having the open E string although it might work depending on the chord progression.