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Fig. 1 · Ebm · moderate

guitar chord

E♭m

E♭1G♭♭3B♭5

The major triad with its third lowered by a half step.

Written the other way round it is D♯m — 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

bddbbb

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

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hard

3
Fig. 4

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hard

6
Fig. 5

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hard

6
Fig. 6

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hard · barre

What is true of it

E♭m is E♭, G♭ and B♭ — 1, b3 and 5 counted from E♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 3, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is bddbbb: 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

first inversion

E♭m/G♭

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6
second inversion

E♭m/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♭dimdiminishedE♭augaugmentedE♭5power chordE♭sus2suspended secondE♭sus4suspended fourth

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