Other extended chords follow similar rules, so that for example maj9, maj11, and maj13 contain

major seventh chords rather than dominant seventh chords, while min9, min11,
andmin13 contain minor seventh chords.

Altered chords[edit]
Main article: Altered chord

Altered chord on C with flat 5th, 7th, and 9th.

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Although the third and seventh of the chord are always determined by the symbols shown
above, the fifth, ninth, eleventh and thirteenth may all be chromatically altered by accidentals
(the root cannot be so altered without changing the name of the chord, while the third cannot
be altered without altering the chord's quality). These are noted alongside the altered element.
Accidentals are most often used with dominant seventh chords. Altered dominant seventh
chords (C7alt) may have a flat ninth, a sharp ninth, a diminished fifth or an augmented fifth (see
Levine's Jazz Theory). Some write this as C7+9, which assumes also the flat ninth, diminished
fifth and augmented fifth (see Aebersold'sScale Syllabus). The augmented ninth is often
referred to in blues and jazz as a blue note, being enharmonically equivalent to the flat

third or tenth. When superscripted numerals are used the different numbers may be
listed horizontally (as shown) or else vertically.
Components

Chord

Seventh augmented

dominant

fifth

seventh

Seventh flat ninth

dominant
seventh

Interval(s)

Chord
symbol

Notes

Audio

augmented fifth

C7+5, C75

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minor ninth

C7-9, C79

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Seventh sharp ninth

dominant
seventh

augmented ninth C7+9, C79

Seventh augmented

dominant

augmented

eleventh

seventh

eleventh

Seventh flat

dominant

thirteenth

seventh

Half-diminished
seventh

minor thirteenth

minor seventh diminished fifth

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C7+11, C711

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C7-13, C713

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C, Cm75

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Added tone chords[edit]

Main article: Added tone chord

Suspended chord (sus2) and added tone chord (add9) both with D (ninth=second), distinguished by the
absence or presence of the third (E).[34]

An added tone chord is a triad chord with an added, non-tertian note, such as the commonly
added sixth as well as chords with an added second (ninth) or fourth (eleventh) or a
combination of the three. These chords do not include "intervening" thirds as in an extended
chord. Added chords can also have variations. Thus madd9, m4 and m6 are minor triads with
extended notes.
Sixth chords can belong to either of two groups. One is first inversion chords and added sixth
chords that contain a sixth from the root. [35] The other group is inverted chords in which the
interval of a sixth appears above a bass note that is not the root. [36]
The major sixth chord (also called, sixth or added sixth with the chord notation 6, e.g., "C6") is
by far the most common type of sixth chord of the first group. It comprises a major triad with the
added major sixth above the root, common in popular music.[7] For example, the chord C6
contains the notes C-E-G-A. The minor sixth chord (min6 or m6, e.g., "Cm6") is a minor triad

with the same added note. For example, the chord Cmin6 contains the notes C-E-G-A. In
chord notation, the sixth of either chord is always assumed a major sixth rather than a minor
sixth, however a minor sixth interval may be indicated in the notation as, for example,
"Cm(m6)",