Eb chord on guitar
Eb major
Eb is a major chord with three notes: Eb, G and Bb. Learn it first as a barre at fret 6, your index finger flat across five strings. Below: where each finger goes, which strings to skip and one more way to play it.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right. The chord detector is free and listens through your mic.
How to play it
- Index flat across fret 6, from the A string to the high e
- Middle on the D string, fret 8
- Ring on the G string, fret 8
- Pinky on the B string, fret 8
The number in each note head is the finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Strings to skip
Skip the low E string and strum from the A string down.
- Shape
- Barre at fret 6index finger across five strings at fret 6
- Fingers
- Fourindex, middle, ring and pinky
- Strings played
- FiveA, D, G, B and high e
- Open strings
- Noneevery played string is fretted
- Lowest note
- Eb3the root, on the A string
- Frets
- x 6 8 8 8 6low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Eb
- Ebroot
- Gmajor third
- Bbperfect fifth
A major chord is three notes: the root, a major third and a perfect fifth. G is the major third, four frets above the root. Bb is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: Bb4perfect fifth
- B string: G4major third
- G string: Eb4root
- D string: Bb3perfect fifth
- A string: Eb3root
- low E string: not played
Every note of Eb is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- Barre at fret 1111 13 13 12 11 11Root on the low E string.
Related chords
Other Eb chords
Relative minor
The relative minor of Eb is Cm. The Eb major scale uses the same seven notes as the C natural minor scale.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Eb and Lark names the chord it hears, with the notes in it. In the app, the chord book has all 111 chords, string by string.