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E9b5 Guitar Chord

A tense jazz chord with a tritone. Often serves as a tritone substitution for the dominant. The fifth is already altered, so the perfect fifth is not played — the remaining notes are all included.

Guitar

Strings 0–1–2–1–3–2

How to play the E9b5 chord on guitar

Read the string pattern 0–1–2–1–3–2 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 2 · middle finger
3rd string (G) Fret 1 · index finger
2nd string (B) Fret 3 · pinky
1st string (high E) Fret 2 · ring finger

Other names for the E9b5 chord

Other names: E 9th flat 5

Music theory name: ninth flat five chord

Common name: E 9b5 chord

Notes and intervals in the E9b5 chord

Note Interval
E Root
G# Major 3rd
Bb Diminished 5th
D Minor 7th
F# Major 9th

All variations

Open
0–1–2–1–3–2
Fret 3
0–5–4–3–3–4
Fret 6
X–7–6–7–7–6
Fret 7
0–9–8–7–9–0

More chords with E as the root

The same chord type in other keys