E♭m(maj7)

E♭1G♭♭3B♭5D7

Minor triad, major seventh — the tonic chord of harmonic minor.

Written the other way round it is D♯m(maj7) — 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

8665

hard

Fig. 3

8aa9

hard

Fig. 4

x325

easy · no 5

What is true of it

E♭m(maj7) is E♭, G♭, B♭ and D — 1, b3, 5 and 7 counted from E♭.

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

The easiest of the 3 fingerings below is 8665: 4 fingers, held at the 5th 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.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 5 — 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

second inversion

E♭m(maj7)/B♭

3325

third inversion

E♭m(maj7)/D

7666

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♭m7minor seventh E♭major E♭mminor E♭dimdiminished

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