Badd11 Guitar Chord

A major chord with an added eleventh (fourth an octave up) without the seventh and ninth. Creates gentle tension between the third and eleventh. Less common than add9.

Guitar

Strings X–13–12–10–11–11

How to play the Badd11 chord on guitar

Read the string pattern X–13–12–10–11–11 from the low E string to the high E string. Numbers in the pattern are frets; numbers in the colored dots are left-hand fingers. X means a muted string and 0 means an open string.

6th string (low E) Do not play

5th string (A) Fret 13 · little finger

4th string (D) Fret 12 · ring finger

3rd string (G) Fret 10 · index finger

2nd string (B) Fret 11 · middle finger

1st string (high E) Fret 11 · middle finger