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Fig. 1 · Ebdim7 · moderate

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E♭dim7

E♭1G♭♭3B♭♭♭5D♭♭♭♭7

Three minor thirds stacked. The seventh is doubly diminished, which is why it is written with a double flat.

Written the other way round it is D♯dim7 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

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What is true of it

E♭dim7 is E♭, G♭, B♭♭ and D♭♭ — 1, b3, b5 and bb7 counted from E♭.

B♭♭ and D♭♭ are double flats, and they have to be: every letter from E♭ upwards is used once, so the b5 cannot be written any other way.

The easiest of the 1 fingering below is 8989: 3 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.

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

11
first inversion

E♭dim7/G♭

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2
second inversion

E♭dim7/B♭♭

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third inversion

E♭dim7/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♭m7minor seventhE♭majorE♭mminorE♭dimdiminished

Cdim7C♯dim7D♭dim7Ddim7Edim7Fdim7F♯dim7G♭dim7all 374