Minor 11th chords are beautiful color chords. You can often find them in jazz music. So how do you build them? First let’s look at the A minor scale on the treble staff…
And now the piano keyboard…
Minor 11th chords are built off the following degrees… 1,3,5,7,9,11. In this case it’s the notes of A C E G B D. Let’s look at that on the treble staff and the piano keyboard…
You can build any minor 11 chord beginning on any note using this pattern. Until next time practice building and playing your minor 11 chords.