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Fig. 1 · Eb7sus4 · moderate

guitar chord

E♭7sus4

E♭1A♭4B♭5D♭♭7

A dominant seventh with the fourth standing in for the third.

Written the other way round it is D♯7sus4 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

11
Fig. 2

bbbdbb

moderate · barre

6
Fig. 3

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moderate · barre

11
Fig. 4

bdbdbb

moderate · barre

11
Fig. 5

bbbdbx

moderate · barre

Fig. 6

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hard

What is true of it

E♭7sus4 is E♭, A♭, B♭ and D♭ — 1, 4, 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 bbbdbb: 2 fingers, one of them barring the 11th fret, held at the 11th fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

4 of the 5 need a barre.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 7 — 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

4
first inversion

E♭7sus4/A♭

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6
second inversion

E♭7sus4/B♭

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4
third inversion

E♭7sus4/D♭

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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♭sus2suspended secondE♭sus4suspended fourthE♭majorE♭mminorE♭dimdiminished

C7sus4C♯7sus4D♭7sus4D7sus4E7sus4F7sus4F♯7sus4G♭7sus4all 374