Eb11 guitar chord

5 of 7
  • Tap a note to hear it
  • Arrows change position
  • Fingers, notes or intervals
  • Play the chord

About Eb11

A practical way to hear Eb11 is as held over the original root. The upper shape supplies the flat seventh, ninth, and : Eb, Bb, Db, F and Ab.

Because that upper shape omits the dominant’s major third, the chord remains suspended. This bass-plus-shape sound is used mainly as V.

Also written Eb9sus4 or Eb dominant 11.

Eb11 guitar chord diagram: Eb, Bb, Db, F, Ab, played x6666x
Eb11 guitar chord voicing: x-6-6-6-6-x.

How to use Eb11

1In place of the ii

V in A♭ major

Eb11 has the notes of the ii over the V’s root, so it can take the ii’s bar: Eb11, then Eb9, then Ab. The eleventh gives way to the third, and the V resolves as usual.

Compare with

Listen for: The eleventh falls a half step to the third, then rises a half step into the root of the I.

In which keys. Every note of Eb11 belongs to C# major, Eb minor, F minor, F# major, Ab major and Bb minor.

What to play over Eb11

Useful scales

  • +GC

    Contains Eb11 and adds major third and thirteenth.

  • +GbCb

    Contains Eb11 and adds minor third and flat thirteenth.

  • +GbC

    Contains Eb11 and adds minor third and thirteenth.

Every scale

Chords near Eb11

Change one note

Add a note

Dominant seventh chords on every root

The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.

Midi Settings

7.5
Play Style
One pass of the pick from the lowest string up, everything left ringing.
Instrument
350
150

Style

Shows each chord the way this style would voice it, and marks which of its alternatives belong to the idiom.

Layout

Left Handed Mode