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Minor

Minor thirteenth chords

Cm7 with 9, 11, 13: C-Eb-G-Bb-D-F-A. Formula: 1-b3-5-b7-9-11-13. Full Dorian color.

In every key

The same shape, moved. The symbols below are spelled the way the app spells them, which is the spelling the chord's own scale asks for rather than whichever accidental is easier to type.

  • Cm13
  • Dbm13
  • Dm13
  • Ebm13
  • Em13
  • Fm13
  • F#m13
  • Gm13
  • Abm13
  • Am13
  • Bbm13
  • Bm13

Voicings

Written in C, because that is the key the encyclopedia authors them in; every one transposes unchanged.

Rootless (b3-b7-9-13)

Eb · Bb · D · A

advanced

Top voice on 13 (A) gives Dorian shimmer

Quartal Stack

F · Bb · Eb · A

expert

McCoy Tyner stacked fourths

So What Stack +13

D · F · Bb · Eb · A

expert

Quartal stack 9-11-b7-b3 with 13 on top — McCoy / Coltrane modal climax

Where it turns up

Modal jazz climax chord. McCoy Tyner / Coltrane vocabulary. Often voiced quartal.

Commonly swapped with

  • Cm11
  • Cm9
  • Fsus/C

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