E♭7sus4

E♭1A♭4B♭5D♭♭7

A dominant seventh with the fourth standing in for the third.

Written the other way round it is D♯7sus4 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x344

easy · no 5

Fig. 3

8a9b

hard

Fig. 4

889x

moderate · barre · no 5

Fig. 5

8896

hard · no 5

Fig. 6

889b

moderate · barre · no 5

What is true of it

E♭7sus4 is E♭, A♭, B♭ and D♭ — 1, 4, 5 and b7 counted from E♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x344: 3 fingers, held at the 3rd 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.

It leaves out the 5. 4 strings cannot carry 4 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♭7sus4/A♭

1344

second inversion

E♭7sus4/B♭

3344

third inversion

E♭7sus4/D♭

6866

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♭sus2suspended second E♭sus4suspended fourth E♭major E♭mminor E♭dimdiminished

C7sus4 C♯7sus4 D♭7sus4 D7sus4 E7sus4 F7sus4 F♯7sus4 G♭7sus4 all 374