A7(#11) Chord on Guitar: How To Play the A Dominant Seventh Sharp Eleventh Added chord

Welcome to our tutorial on the A 7(#11) chord. This chord is a member of the Dominant Chords family, which are known for their tension and resolution properties. The A 7(#11) chord is composed of the notes A, C#, E, G, and D# and is built using the music intervals 1 (Root), 3 (Major Third), 5 (Perfect Fifth), b7 (Minor Seventh), and #11 (Augmented Fourth).

If you're new to the concept of music intervals, they are the distances between notes on the fretboard. Understanding them is crucial to mastering chord construction and being able to create your own unique chord voicings. For a comprehensive guide on intervals, be sure to check out our tutorial about fretboard intervals.

The A 7(#11) chord is not a beginner's chord and requires some understanding of how to build chords by stacking intervals. If you are not yet comfortable with this, we recommend starting with our full tutorial about guitar chords of all types before diving into this more advanced topic.

As a member of the Dominant Chords family, the A 7(#11) chord often appears in jazz and blues music. If you're interested in learning more about these styles of music, check out our tutorial about jazz chord progressions and our tutorial about the 1-4-5 rock and blues chord progression.

In this tutorial, we will provide chord diagrams and fretboard patterns showing the tones composing the A 7(#11) chord. We will also discuss how to denote this chord depending on the intervals that compose it. For more on this topic, visit our tutorial on how to denote chords.