EbmMaj11 guitar chord
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About EbmMaj11 — uncommon voicings
EbmMaj11 is Eb, Gb, Bb, D, F and Ab — with the eleventh added on top.
It sounds dense and unresolved. The melodic minor tonic with most of the scale showing — more a texture than a chord to comp on.
Minor tonic — the melodic minor as far up as a guitar carries it.
Also written EbmM11 or Ebm(maj11).
What these less common shapes are
How to use EbmMaj11
How you get to it. The turn that lands on EbmMaj11 is to : the ii and the V of Eb minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.
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What to play over EbmMaj11
Every note of EbmMaj11 is in Eb harmonic minor and Eb melodic minor.
Each of those is a page: the scale across the neck, and the chords it harmonises into — which is where EbmMaj11 sits in it. Every scale.
Chords near EbmMaj11
Change one note of EbmMaj11 and you have (the minor third becomes the major third), (the major seventh becomes the flat seventh) or (drop the eleventh).
EbmMaj11 is a minor chord — root, minor third, fifth. Minor 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.