Ebmaj7#5 guitar chord
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About Ebmaj7#5 — drop 2 voicings
Ebmaj7#5 is Eb, G, B and D. It keeps the major 3rd and 7th of , but raises the 5th one fret to the .
The sharp 5th is the note to follow. It can rise one more fret to the 6th or fall back to the natural 5th as the harmony changes.
Keep it audible. Without the sharp 5th, the remaining notes only spell .
Also written EbM7#5, EbΔ7#5, Eb+M7 or Ebmaj7(#5).
What is drop 2
Stack the four notes closely, then drop the second voice from the top an octave. It typically lands on four adjacent strings: the guitar’s workhorse voicing.
That result, 5–R–3–7, is the shape usually meant by drop 2. Named by its bass note, as the inversions are here, it is the 2nd inversion.
How to use Ebmaj7#5
How you get to it. The turn that lands on Ebmaj7#5 is to — the ii and the V of Eb — and shares its third and seventh with , so the hand barely moves between them.
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What to play over Ebmaj7#5
Useful scales
- +FAC
Contains Ebmaj7#5 and adds ninth, flat fifth and thirteenth.
Chords near Ebmaj7#5
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The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.