E♭aug

E♭1G3B♯5

Two major thirds stacked. Symmetrical: every note can be heard as the root.

Written the other way round it is D♯aug — 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

x332

easy

Fig. 3

877x

easy

Fig. 4

8776

hard

Fig. 5

877a

hard

Fig. 6

8bba

hard

What is true of it

E♭aug is E♭, G and B — 1, 3 and #5 counted from E♭.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x332: 3 fingers, held at the 2nd 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.

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♭aug/G

0332

second inversion

E♭aug/B

433x

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♭major E♭mminor E♭dimdiminished E♭5power chord E♭sus2suspended second E♭sus4suspended fourth

Caug C♯aug D♭aug Daug Eaug Faug F♯aug G♭aug all 374