EbmMaj9 guitar chord
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About EbmMaj9 — inversions voicings
EbmMaj9 is Eb, Gb, Bb, D and F — with the ninth added on top.
It sounds the same unease with more colour over it. The ninth softens the edge without resolving anything.
Minor tonic — melodic minor, extended.
Also written EbmM9, Ebm(maj9) or Eb-Δ9.
What an inversion is
How to use EbmMaj9
How you get to it. The turn that lands on EbmMaj9 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 EbmMaj9
Every note of EbmMaj9 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 EbmMaj9 sits in it. Every scale.
Chords near EbmMaj9
Change one note of EbmMaj9 and you have (the minor third becomes the major third), (the major seventh becomes the sixth), (the major seventh becomes the flat seventh), (drop the ninth), (add the eleventh) or (drop the major seventh).
EbmMaj9 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.