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Fig. 1 · Ebdim · hard

guitar chord

E♭dim

E♭1G♭♭3B♭♭♭5

Two minor thirds stacked. The fifth is diminished, so it cannot be dropped without losing the chord.

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

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

xx1242

hard

6
Fig. 3

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hard

10
Fig. 4

xxdbab

hard

11
Fig. 5

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moderate · barre

What is true of it

E♭dim is E♭, G♭ and B♭♭ — 1, b3 and b5 counted from E♭.

B♭♭ is a double flat, and it has to be: every letter from E♭ upwards is used once, so the b5 cannot be written any other way.

The easiest of the 4 fingerings below is xx1242: 4 fingers, held at the 1st 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.

1 of the 4 need a barre.

2 strings stay silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 6 — 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♭dim/G♭

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second inversion

E♭dim/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♭augaugmentedE♭5power chordE♭sus2suspended secondE♭sus4suspended fourth

CdimC♯dimD♭dimDdimEdimFdimF♯dimG♭dimall 374