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Fig. 1 · Eb11 · moderate

ukulele chord

E♭11

E♭1G3B♭5D♭♭7F9A♭11

Six notes in theory; in practice the third is usually dropped, because the eleventh sits a half step above it.

Written the other way round it is D♯11 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

E♭11 is E♭, G, B♭, D♭, F and A♭ — 1, 3, 5, b7, 9 and 11 counted from E♭.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 6, the 3, 5 and 1 go first, in that order.

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 8898: 2 fingers, one of them barring the 8th fret, held at the 8th 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 3 and 5. 4 strings cannot carry 6 notes, and the 3 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 3 — 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♭11/G

0544

3
second inversion

E♭11/B♭

3544

4
third inversion

E♭11/D♭

6546

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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