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Fig. 1 — nothing to hold

ukulele 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.

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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.

No fingering of E♭13 fits a hand on the ukulele: inside four frets, with the strings that sound next to each other and the root underneath, there is nothing to hold.

Where its notes are on the neck

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Fig. 2 — 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

0014

second inversion

E♭13/B♭

3034

third inversion

E♭13/D♭

6036

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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