TRITONE CHORD SUBSTITUTIONS

[Ephraim Elisha Atinyo]

Please can someone help me with some tritone substitution chords for all the major scales. From 1 to 7.

[GospelEngineer]

I noticed nobody has replied to your request yet so I'm going to give it a shot.

A tri-tone is made up of two notes that are three whole steps apart. So starting from an F note you would go up three whole steps(G, A, B). This puts you on the B making a tri-tone of F and B.

There are six tri tone substitutions:

F7(A-Eb) subs for B7(D#-A)
E7(G#-D) subs for Bb7(D-Ab)
Eb7(G-Db) subs for A7(C#-G)
D7(F#-C) subs for Ab7(C-Gb)
Db7(F-B) subs for G7(B-F)
C7(E-Bb) subs for Gb7(Bb-E)

So if you're playing in the key of C and are playing a 2-5-1 progression(Dmin, G7, C), you could substitute a Db7 for the G7 and play a (Dmin, Db7, C)

[Ephraim Elisha Atinyo]

Thanks alot.

[ltljake]

For every dominant 7 chord you can substitute playing the entire chord by just playing the 3rd and the dominant 7th. So if your playing a congregational song in C you would play E and Bb on the left hand. That gives you the tri-tone sub for C7. Moving those two notes up a half step gives you the triton sub for G7 which is F and B.