A♯maj11 (major eleventh) / B♭maj11 (major eleventh)

6-note major 11th on A♯ / B♭A♯, C, D, D♯, F, A.

Press to hear the chord strummed low to high.

A major ninth reaching to the eleventh — wide and shimmering, though the eleventh's clash with the third asks for careful voicing.

The notes

Pitches taken from the first fingering below — click any note to open its frequency page.

Interval formula

DegreeNoteWhat it is
1A♯root
9Cninth
3Dmajor third
11D♯eleventh (perfect fourth)
5Fperfect fifth
7Amajor seventh

The formula reads in semitones above the root (A♯): 1, 9, 3, 11, 5, 7. A voicing may leave a tone out — often the fifth — but never adds one from outside this set.

Guitar fingerings · 4

23
open position
4fr4213
from fret 4
6fr112311
from fret 6
8fr1134
from fret 8

Ukulele fingerings · 2

3fr2134
from fret 3
6fr2431
from fret 6

Read a diagram top-down: the thick bar is the nut, dots are where to press (the number is which finger), means play the open string, means don't play it. A bar across strings is a barre.

Other A♯ / B♭ chords

maj11 (major eleventh) chords on every root