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Ebm7b5
Eb half-diminished (m7b5)
Notes: Eb · Gb · Bbb · Db
Bbb sounds the same as A.
Also spelled D#m7b5
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Common shapes (3)
x 6 7 6 7 x
11 x 11 11 10 x
Other shapes (12)
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11 0 11 11 x x
11 0 11 11 10 x
x 6 4 6 x 5
11 0 11 11 x 11
11 12 11 11 x x
x 6 x 6 7 5
x 6 4 6 4 5
11 0 x 11 10 9
11 0 11 11 x 9
x 6 7 x 7 9
11 9 11 x 10 x
x 6 7 6 7 9
About Ebm7b5
Ebm7b5 is built from four notes: Eb (root), Gb (minor third), Bbb (diminished fifth) and Db (minor seventh). In scale degrees above the root, the formula is 1 – b3 – b5 – b7. It is the chord on the seventh degree of the major scale (viiø7) and the usual chord on the second degree of minor progressions in jazz (iiø7, V7, i).
On guitar, Ebm7b5 has 3 common shapes: the D, A and E shapes. These are CAGED system shapes, the basis for playing the same chord anywhere on the neck. There are 12 more voicings sorted by difficulty; use the viewer switches to add inversions and stretches. Ebm7b5 is also written as D#m7b5: the same chord with the root spelled differently, and it sounds identical. The more common spelling is Ebm7b5.