E♭dim7

E♭1G♭♭3B♭♭♭5D♭♭♭♭7

Three minor thirds stacked. The seventh is doubly diminished, which is why it is written with a double flat.

Written the other way round it is D♯dim7 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukulele on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

xx1212

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

x6757x

hard

Fig. 4

bcdbdb

hard · barre

Fig. 5

bcabxx

hard

Fig. 6

bcdbdx

hard · barre

What is true of it

E♭dim7 is E♭, G♭, B♭♭ and D♭♭ — 1, b3, b5 and bb7 counted from E♭.

B♭♭ and D♭♭ are double flats, and they have to be: every letter from E♭ upwards is used once, so the b5 cannot be written any other way.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is xx1212: 3 fingers, one of them barring the 1st fret, 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.

3 of the 5 need a barre.

2 strings stay silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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

first inversion

E♭dim7/G♭

20121x

second inversion

E♭dim7/B♭♭

x01212

third inversion

E♭dim7/D♭♭

x3424x

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♭7dominant seventh E♭maj7major seventh E♭m7minor seventh E♭major E♭mminor E♭dimdiminished

Cdim7 C♯dim7 D♭dim7 Ddim7 Edim7 Fdim7 F♯dim7 G♭dim7 all 374