Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

guitar chord

E♭5

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Root and fifth, no third at all — neither major nor minor, which is the point.

Written the other way round it is D♯5 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

E♭5 is E♭ and B♭ — 1 and 5 counted from E♭.

No fingering of E♭5 fits a hand on the guitar: inside four frets, with the strings that sound next to each other and the root underneath, there is nothing to hold.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 2 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are E♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

E♭5/B♭

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An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

E♭ in other shapes

E♭majorE♭mminorE♭dimdiminished

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