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Eb9b5 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 X–6–5–6–6–5

How to play the Eb9b5 chord on guitar

Read the string pattern X–6–5–6–6–5 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) Do not play
5th string (A) Fret 6 · middle finger
4th string (D) Fret 5 · index finger
3rd string (G) Fret 6 · ring finger
2nd string (B) Fret 6 · little finger
1st string (high E) Fret 5 · index finger

Notation for Eb9b5 chord

Other names: Eb 9th flat 5

Music theory name: ninth flat five chord

Common name: Eb 9b5 chord

Intervals and tones in Eb9b5 chord

Note Interval
Eb Root
G Major 3rd
A Diminished 5th
C# Minor 7th
F Major 9th

All Variations

Fret 5
X–6–5–6–6–5
Fret 6
X–6–7–0–6–9
Fret 10
11–10–11–10–10–11
Fret 11
11–12–11–12–X–13

More chords with Eb as the root

The same chord type in other keys