EbmMaj9 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.
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About EbmMaj9 — uncommon voicings
EbmMaj9 is Eb, Gb, Bb, D and F — EbmMaj7 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.
EbmMaj9 notes and formula
| Eb | Gb | Bb | D | F |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ♭3 | 5 | 7 | 9 |
Also written EbmM9, Ebm(maj9) or Eb-Δ9. The same chord either way; which spelling you meet depends on who wrote the chart.
How to play EbmMaj9
Five notes and four fingers, so something has to go. Keep Gb and D (they fix the quality) 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 EbmMaj9 as a shell — root, third and seventh — and the spare string takes the 11 (Ab) or the 13 (C).
All 6 common shapes as fret numbers, lowest string first. Hover or tap one to see it drawn.
- 111332, 1st fret, F, 9th in the bass, top note Gb, barred
- x6476x, 4th fret, Eb, root position, top note F, all fretted
- 698766, 6th fret, Bb, 2nd inversion, top note Bb, barred
- 11-9-x-10-11-10, 9th fret, Eb, root position, top note D, all fretted
- 11-9-12-10-x-x, 9th fret, Eb, root position, top note F, all fretted
- 11-13-12-11-11-13, 11th fret, Eb, root position, top note F, barred
How to use EbmMaj9
How you get to it. The turn that lands on EbmMaj9 is Fm7♭5 to Bb7♭9: the ii and the V of Eb minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.
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 Ebmaj9 (the minor third becomes the major third), Ebm69 (the major seventh becomes the sixth), Ebm9 (the major seventh becomes the flat seventh), EbmMaj7 (drop the ninth), EbmMaj11 (add the eleventh) or Ebmadd9 (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.