Eb5

Eb5 is Eb and Bb, a power chord. The shape this page opens on is written x68xxx, lowest string first.

Note by note. Eb is the root and Bb is the fifth.

Also written Eb(no 3rd) or Eb power chord. The same chord either way; which spelling you meet depends on who wrote the chart.

There are 2 common shapes for Eb5 on the guitar, and 22 derived voicings in the triad family.

One note away. Change a single note of Eb5 and you have Eb (with one note added), Ebm (with one note added), Ebsus2 (with one note added) or Ebsus4 (with one note added).

In which keys. Every note of Eb5 belongs to C minor (the ♭III), C# major (the ii), Eb major (the I), Eb minor (the i), F minor (the ♭VII), F# major (the vi), G minor (the ♭VI), Ab major (the V), Ab minor (the v), Bb major (the IV), Bb minor (the iv) and B major (the iii).

The common shapes, written lowest string first: x68xxx, 11-13-13-x-x-x.

Under the hand. None of the shapes for Eb5 uses an open string, so every one of them is movable; the lowest sits at the 6th fret. None of them needs a barre. Together they cover the neck from the 6th fret to the 13th.

Triad. Three notes across one string set. Eb5 has x113xx, x688xx, 668xxx, 6688xx, 11-13-13-x-x-x, x-13-13-15-x-x, xx134x, x1134x.

What kind of chord this is. Eb5 is a suspended chord — root and fifth, with a second or fourth where the third would be — or nothing at all. suspended and power chords on every root, and what they are for.

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