Ebalt

Ebalt is Eb, G, B, Db and Fb, a altered dominant. The shape this page opens on is written xx1243, lowest string first.

There are 8 common shapes for Ebalt on the guitar, and 28 derived voicings in 3 families.

The common shapes, written lowest string first: xx1243, x65045, x65885, x6708x, x6788x, 11-10-x-12-10-11, x-x-13-12-10-11, 11-12-13-12-x-11.

Shell. Root, third and seventh: the guide tones fix the quality, so the fifth is dropped. That is what leaves a string free, so pick a tension to put on top. Ebalt has xx1020, x6565x, 11-10-11-9-x-x, x-x-13-12-14-12, x6x020, x6x687, 11-x-11-12-12-x, x6x027.

Rootless. The root left to the bass player. Frees a finger for a tension. Ebalt has xx2423, x2202x, x4545x, xx5657, xx9989, x-x-11-12-12-12, x-14-14-12-14-x, x2x020.

Open string. An open string left ringing against a fretted grip. Because it costs no finger, it sounds a note the closed shape has none left for -- a tension on top, or a pedal root underneath. Either a familiar grip with open strings added, or a shape so sparse the open strings carry the chord. These belong to their key rather than to a shape, so D, A, G and E have many and Eb a handful. Ebalt has 002423, 00560x, 04700x, x47000, 045000, xx5600.

Tensions. A shell of Ebalt, root, third and seventh, leaves a string free, and the tones that belong over it are the #11 (A).

The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in where the chords and the theory come from.