EbmM7 (D#mM7) chord — guitar, ukulele and piano shapes

What E♭mM7 is built from

Counting up in semitones from E♭:

Note	Interval	Semitones from root
E♭	root	0
G♭	minor third	3
B♭	perfect fifth	7
D	major seventh	11

Move all four of those the same distance and you get the same chord on another root — that is what the minor-major seventh formula 0 – 3 – 7 – 11 means.

How to play E♭mM7

Guitar

Leave the low E string out. Lay your first finger flat across fret 6 and let the other fingers take the notes above it. The shape runs from fret 6 to fret 8.

Ukulele

All four strings are played. The shape runs from fret 2 to fret 5.

Piano

Play E♭, G♭, B♭ and D together. That is one white key and three black.

Numbers in the grids are frets. Where a number is printed beside a grid, that is the fret the top row stands for; otherwise the thick bar at the top is the nut. A circle above a string means play it open, a cross means leave it out.

Guitar, string by string

Guitar string	Stopped at	Sounds
low E	not played	—
A	fret 6	E♭
D	fret 8	B♭
G	fret 7	D
B	fret 7	G♭
top E	fret 6	B♭

Ukulele, string by string

Ukulele string	Stopped at	Sounds
G	fret 3	B♭
C	fret 3	E♭
E	fret 2	G♭
A	fret 5	D

E♭mM7 on the stave

The same four notes written on a treble stave, spelled the way a minor-major seventh is spelled — one letter for every other step, with whichever accidental reaches the pitch. That is why it reads E♭, G♭, B♭ and D, and not the same sounds written some other way.

Which keys E♭mM7 belongs to

No major scale contains all four of these notes. It does sit inside the harmonic minor scale, which is where it is usually met:

E♭ harmonic minor, on degree i(♮7)

Other chords on E♭

Same root, different notes above it.

E♭ E♭m E♭7 E♭maj7 E♭m7 E♭mM7 D♯dim D♯dim7

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