EbmMaj7b5 guitar chord

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About EbmMaj7b5uncommon voicings

EbmMaj7b5 is Eb, Gb, A and D with the seventh raised a semitone.

It sounds brittle and impossible to mistake. Scarce enough that most players meet it as a passing sonority rather than as a chord they chose.

Rare tonic — a half-diminished chord with its seventh raised instead.

Also written EbmM7b5 or Ebm(maj7)b5.

EbmMaj7b5 uncommon guitar chord diagram: Eb, Gb, A, D, played x6777x
EbmMaj7b5 uncommon, x6777x — the shape above, as a picture.

What these less common shapes are

What to play over EbmMaj7b5

Every note of EbmMaj7b5 is in Eb diminished.

Each of those is a page: the scale across the neck, and the chords it harmonises into — which is where EbmMaj7b5 sits in it. Every scale.

Chords near EbmMaj7b5

Change one note of EbmMaj7b5 and you have (drop the major seventh), (the major seventh becomes the diminished seventh), (the minor third becomes the major third), (the major seventh becomes the flat seventh) or (the flat fifth becomes the fifth).

EbmMaj7b5 is a diminished chord — root, minor third, flat fifth. Diminished and half-diminished 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.
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