Dominant 7th #11 piano chords can help provide us with a very unique sounding #11 dissonance for our music. The #11 dominant chord can be used to help us transition into both major or minor chords and when used correctly, it can help to add another layer of harmonic complexity & richness to our music.
A DOMINANT 7TH #11 CHORD(A7 #11)
A7 #11 piano chord - Basic theory
In theory, the A dominant 7th #11 chord is made up of the 1-3-5-b7-#11 notes from the A major scale but practically speaking, most people find it easier to think about this chord as an A dominant 7th chord with an added #11 note. Please note that you can also consider using a dominant 13th #11 chord, which adds in the 9th & 13th notes.
A MAJOR SCALE (WITH EXTENSIONS)
A DOMINANT 7TH #11 CHORD(A7 #11)
Learn popular passing chord techniques
When learning how to play altered chords on piano, we soon realize that we can use these chords to help give us lots of extra sound variety & harmonic maturity. For example, after we have learnt some popular passing chord techniques, we can now start introducing altered chords into these sequences, to help us create lovely sounding music.
Also, once we understand the basics of how to create chord progressions, we can start to combine this knowledge with our knowledge of passing chords & altered chords, which now gives us the ability to just sit down at the piano and play beautiful music. And we add in things like piano runs, chord fills & arpeggios we can really bring our piano chords to life.