Ebaug

Ebaug is Eb, G and B, a augmented triad. The shape this page opens on is written xx5443, lowest string first.

Note by note. Eb is the root, G is the major third and B is the sharp fifth.

Also written Eb+, Eb(#5) or Eb augmented. The same chord either way; which spelling you meet depends on who wrote the chart.

There are 8 common shapes for Ebaug on the guitar, and 48 derived voicings in 2 families.

One note away. Change a single note of Ebaug and you have Eb (with one note moved), Ebmaj7#5 (with one note added) or Ebaug7 (with one note added).

The common shapes, written lowest string first: xx5443, x6544x, x6x887, x6988x, xxx887, 11-10-9-8-8-x, 11-x-13-12-12-11, x-x-13-12-12-11.

Under the hand. None of the shapes for Ebaug uses an open string, so every one of them is movable; the lowest sits at the 3rd fret. None of them needs a barre. Together they cover the neck from the 3rd fret to the 13th.

Triad. Three notes across one string set. Ebaug has xx100x, 321xxx, x210xx, xx1003, 3210xx, x2100x, xxx443, xx5443.

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. Ebaug has x6500x, 3x500x.

What kind of chord this is. Ebaug is a augmented chord — root, major third, sharp fifth. augmented 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.