EbmMaj7b5 guitar chord
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About EbmMaj7b5 — drop 2 voicings
EbmMaj7b5 names three separate instructions: a minor 3rd, Bbb♭5, and major 7th. The result is Eb, Gb, Bbb and D.
The flat 5th is the only change from . It must sound, or the voicing is only . This is neither a half-diminished nor diminished-seventh chord.
Also written EbmM7b5 or Ebm(maj7)b5.
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.
What to play over EbmMaj7b5
Useful scales
- +FAbCbC
Contains EbmMaj7b5 and adds ninth, eleventh, sharp fifth and thirteenth.
Chords near EbmMaj7b5
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