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Fig. 1 · Ebm6 · easy

ukulele chord

E♭m6

E♭1G♭♭3B♭5C6

A minor triad with a major sixth added, which is why it is not simply a minor chord with a flat seventh.

Written the other way round it is D♯m6 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on guitaron pianothe scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

2
Fig. 2

x323

easy · no 5

6
Fig. 3

8686

hard · no 5

8
Fig. 4

8a89

moderate · barre

6
Fig. 5

868x

easy · no 5

6
Fig. 6

8689

hard · no 5

What is true of it

E♭m6 is E♭, G♭, B♭ and C — 1, b3, 5 and 6 counted from E♭.

These are also the notes of Cm7♭5/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 x323: 3 fingers, held at the 2nd 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

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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

6
first inversion

E♭m6/G♭

x686

2
second inversion

E♭m6/B♭

3323

5
third inversion

E♭m6/C

5666

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♭6major sixthE♭majorE♭mminorE♭dimdiminished

Cm6C♯m6D♭m6Dm6Em6Fm6F♯m6G♭m6all 374