Eb69 guitar chord
Playable, correctly spelled, and not how the chord is normally voiced. Right now this is the shapes that put a ninth, eleventh or thirteenth below the root.
- Tap a note to hear it
- Arrows change position
- Fingers, notes or intervals
- Play the chord
About Eb69 — uncommon voicings
Eb69 is Eb, G, Bb, C and F — Eb6 with the ninth added as well.
It sounds wide and entirely at rest. The modern way to voice a tonic when a triad is too bare and a maj7 too pointed.
Tonic — it commits to nothing.
Eb69 notes and formula
| Eb | G | Bb | C | F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 9 |
Also written Eb6/9, Eb6add9 or Eb six nine. The same chord either way; which spelling you meet depends on who wrote the chart.
How to play Eb69
Five notes and four fingers, so something has to go. Keep G (it fixes the quality) and C and F (what the symbol is about). Let Bb and Eb go, in that order — a perfect fifth says nothing the root has not, and in a band the bass has the root.
Play Eb69 as a shell — root, third and seventh — and the spare string takes the #11 (A).
All 8 common shapes as fret numbers, lowest string first. Hover or tap one to see it drawn.
- xx1011, open position, Eb, root position, top note F, barred
- x33343, 3rd fret, C, 6th in the bass, top note G, barred
- x63543, 3rd fret, Eb, root position, top note G, all fretted
- x65566, 5th fret, Eb, root position, top note Bb, barred
- x88888, 8th fret, F, 9th in the bass, top note C, barred
- 11-10-10-10-11-11, 10th fret, Eb, root position, top note Eb, barred
- x-x-13-12-13-13, 12th fret, Eb, root position, top note F, barred
- x-13-13-12-13-13, 12th fret, Bb, 2nd inversion, top note F, barred
How to use Eb69
How you get to it. The turn that lands on Eb69 is Fm7 to Bb7 — the ii and the V of Eb — and Bb7 shares its third and seventh with Fm7, so the hand barely moves between them.
In which keys. Every note of Eb69 belongs to C minor (the ♭III), Eb major (the I), F minor (the ♭VII), G minor (the ♭VI), Ab major (the V) and Bb major (the IV).
What to play over Eb69
Eb69 is every note of the Eb major pentatonic, and nothing else. It also sits inside Eb major, Eb mixolydian, Eb lydian and Eb lydian dominant.
Each of those is a page: the scale across the neck, and the chords it harmonises into — which is where Eb69 sits in it. Every scale.
Chords near Eb69
Change one note of Eb69 and you have Ebmaj9 (the sixth becomes the major seventh), Ebmaj13 (add the major seventh), Ebm69 (the major third becomes the minor third), Ebadd9 (drop the sixth), Eb6 (drop the ninth) or Eb9 (the sixth becomes the flat seventh).
Eb69 is a major chord — root, major third, fifth. Major 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.