E♭maj9

E♭1G3B♭5D7F9

A major seventh with a ninth on top.

Written the other way round it is D♯maj9 — 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

x60063

easy · no 5

Fig. 3

xx1031

open · no 5

Fig. 4

x60363

hard

Fig. 5

x63036

hard

Fig. 6

x63033

hard · no 5

What is true of it

E♭maj9 is E♭, G, B♭, D and F — 1, 3, 5, 7 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 x60063: 3 fingers, held at the 3rd fret.

1 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.

It leaves out the 5. 6 strings cannot carry 5 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

1 string stays 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♭maj9/G

310041

second inversion

E♭maj9/B♭

x10041

third inversion

E♭maj9/D

xx0041

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 ninth E♭9dominant ninth E♭m9minor ninth E♭major E♭mminor E♭dimdiminished

Cmaj9 C♯maj9 D♭maj9 Dmaj9 Emaj9 Fmaj9 F♯maj9 G♭maj9 all 374