E♭m7

E♭1G♭♭3B♭5D♭♭7

Minor triad with a minor seventh. The same four notes as a major sixth chord a third above.

Written the other way round it is D♯m7 — 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

x324

easy · no 5

Fig. 3

8a99

hard

Fig. 4

8696

hard · no 5

Fig. 5

8699

hard · no 5

Fig. 6

869x

easy · no 5

What is true of it

E♭m7 is E♭, G♭, B♭ and D♭ — 1, b3, 5 and b7 counted from E♭.

These are also the notes of G♭6/E♭ and F♯6/E♭. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x324: 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.

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♭m7/G♭

x696

second inversion

E♭m7/B♭

3324

third inversion

E♭m7/D♭

6666

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♭7dominant seventh E♭maj7major seventh E♭m(maj7)minor major seventh E♭major E♭mminor E♭dimdiminished

Cm7 C♯m7 D♭m7 Dm7 Em7 Fm7 F♯m7 G♭m7 all 374