E♭7

E♭1G3B♭5D♭♭7

Major triad, minor seventh. The chord that wants to resolve a fourth up.

Written the other way round it is D♯7 — 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

x334

moderate · barre · no 5

Fig. 3

8a9a

hard

Fig. 4

879x

easy · no 5

Fig. 5

8796

hard · no 5

Fig. 6

879a

hard · no 5

What is true of it

E♭7 is E♭, G, B♭ and D♭ — 1, 3, 5 and b7 counted from E♭.

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

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x334: 2 fingers, one of them barring the 3rd fret, held at the 3rd 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.

1 of the 5 need a barre.

It leaves out the 5. 4 strings cannot carry 4 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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♭7/G

0334

second inversion

E♭7/B♭

3334

third inversion

E♭7/D♭

6766

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♭maj7major seventh E♭m7minor seventh E♭m(maj7)minor major seventh E♭major E♭mminor E♭dimdiminished

C7 C♯7 D♭7 D7 E7 F7 F♯7 G♭7 all 374