Home › Eb Guitar Chords › Eb/E Guitar Chord

Eb/E Guitar Chord

The fundamental chord with a bright, happy and stable sound. Forms the basis of most popular, rock, folk and classical music. Consists of three notes: the root, major third and perfect fifth. This is a slash chord — the bass note is E instead of the root.

Guitar

Strings 0–1–1–3–4–3

How to play the Eb/E chord on guitar

Read the string pattern 0–1–1–3–4–3 from the low E string to the high E string. Numbers in the pattern are frets; numbers in the colored dots are left-hand fingers. X means a muted string and 0 means an open string.

6th string (low E) Open
5th string (A) Fret 1 · index finger
4th string (D) Fret 1 · index finger
3rd string (G) Fret 3 · middle finger
2nd string (B) Fret 4 · pinky
1st string (high E) Fret 3 · ring finger

Other names for the Eb/E chord

Other names: Eb major, Ebmaj, EbM

Music theory name: major triad

Common name: Eb major chord

Notes and intervals in the Eb/E chord

Note Interval
Eb Root
G Major 3rd
Bb Perfect 5th
E Bass note

All variations

Open
0–1–1–3–4–3
Open
X–X–2–3–4–3
Fret 3
0–6–5–3–4–3
Fret 6
0–6–8–8–8–6

More chords with Eb as the root

The same chord type in other keys