11EbBbDbGbBbEb
Fig. 1 · Ebm7 · moderate

guitar chord

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 ukuleleon pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

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Fig. 2

bdbbbb

moderate · barre

Fig. 3

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hard

6
Fig. 4

x68676

moderate · barre

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Fig. 5

bdbbbx

moderate · barre

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Fig. 6

bdbbbe

moderate · barre

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 bdbbbb: 2 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.

4 of the 5 need a barre.

Where its notes are on the neck

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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♭

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second inversion

E♭m7/B♭

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third inversion

E♭m7/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♭7dominant seventhE♭maj7major seventhE♭m(maj7)minor major seventhE♭majorE♭mminorE♭dimdiminished

Cm7C♯m7D♭m7Dm7Em7Fm7F♯m7G♭m7all 374