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Fig. 1 · Eb13 · hard

guitar chord

E♭13

E♭1G3B♭5D♭♭7F9C13

Seven notes in theory and four or five in anyone’s hands: root, third, seventh and thirteenth carry it.

Written the other way round it is D♯13 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

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Fig. 2

bdbcdb

hard · barre · no 9

6
Fig. 3

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hard · barre · no 9

11
Fig. 4

bdbcdx

hard · barre · no 9

What is true of it

E♭13 is E♭, G, B♭, D♭, F and C — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 13 counted from E♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 6, the 5, 9 and 1 go first, in that order.

The easiest of the 3 fingerings below is bdbcdb: 4 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.

It leaves out the 9. 6 strings cannot carry 6 notes, and the 9 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

Where its notes are on the neck

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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

first inversion

E♭13/G

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second inversion

E♭13/B♭

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third inversion

E♭13/D♭

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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♭add9added ninthE♭9dominant ninthE♭maj9major ninthE♭majorE♭mminorE♭dimdiminished

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