guitar chord
E♭7
Major triad, minor seventh. The chord that wants to resolve a fourth up.
Written the other way round it is D♯7 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.
Every fingering that fits a hand
xx1023
open · no 5
xx1323
hard
bdbcbb
moderate · barre
x68686
moderate · barre
bdbcbx
moderate · barre
What is true of it
E♭7 is E♭, G, B♭ and D♭ — 1, 3, 5 and b7 counted from E♭.
On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.
The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is xx1023: 3 fingers, held at the 1st fret.
1 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.
3 of the 5 need a barre.
It leaves out the 5. 6 strings cannot carry 4 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.
2 strings stay silent.
Where its notes are on the neck
The brass dots are E♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.
With a different note underneath
E♭7/G
31102x
E♭7/B♭
x1102x
E♭7/D♭
x45046
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.