Modal RunsD13 Chord (Dominant 13th)
Dominant 13th is the full dominant stack — root through the flat 7th, 9th, 11th (often omitted), and 13th. The notes of D13 are D, F#, A, C, E, B.
Big-band and jazz-blues voicing at its richest — the chord under a horn-section hit right before a cadence.
D13 voicings on guitar
Every playable, root-in-the-bass grip standard tuning offers, computed from the chord’s own formula — not a fixed shape library.
No clean root-position grip was found for this chord in standard tuning — try it as an arpeggio instead.
Hear D13 against a drone →Free, in your browser. See every voicing on the full neck.Drop the 11th (the note that clashes with the 3rd) and voice root, 3rd, 7th, 13th for the version that actually gets played on guitar.
Formula and intervals
R - 3 - 5 - b7 - 2 - 6 — 6 notes.
Scales that fit D13
Every scale below contains all of this chord’s notes — safe territory to improvise in over it.