11EbBbDbGbBbF
Fig. 1 · Ebm9 · moderate

guitar chord

E♭m9

E♭1G♭♭3B♭5D♭♭7F9

A minor seventh with a ninth on top.

Written the other way round it is D♯m9 — 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

bdbbbd

moderate · barre

4
Fig. 3

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hard · no 5

11
Fig. 4

bdbbed

hard · barre

9
Fig. 5

b9baxx

hard · no 5

8
Fig. 6

b8bbxx

hard · no 5

What is true of it

E♭m9 is E♭, G♭, B♭, D♭ and F — 1, b3, 5, b7 and 9 counted from E♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 5, the 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is bdbbbd: 3 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.

2 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

2
first inversion

E♭m9/G♭

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6
second inversion

E♭m9/B♭

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9
third inversion

E♭m9/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♭add9added ninthE♭9dominant ninthE♭maj9major ninthE♭majorE♭mminorE♭dimdiminished

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