
If you’ve come to this page just to view some chord diagrams for Ebm7, here they are. The Ab Major scale and Ab Lydian mode can be used when soloing over the A flat Major 7 chord.
The Ab Major 7 chord works well with the Fm7 chord (relative minor). Ebm7 is an Ebm chord, with the flat 7th (Db) included. The A flat Major 7 chord is the first chord in the key of A flat and the fourth chord in the key of E flat.
The E flat minor 7 chord (just like all minor 7 chords) contains the following intervals (from the root note): minor 3rd, Major 3rd, minor 3rd, Major 2nd (back to the root note). The Ebm7 chord is produced by playing the 1st (root), flat 3rd, 5th and flat 7th of the E flat Major scale. The E flat minor 7 chord contains the notes Eb, Gb, Bb and Db. The root 6 (2nd shape below) is less common, as it is played on the 11th fret, which can be slightly awkward to play on some guitars. Along with the Major 7 and Dominant 7 chords, the minor 7 chord is one of the most common 7th chords in all of music.Įbm7 is most commonly played as a root 5 bar chord, starting on the 6th fret (see the first shape in the image below). The minor 7 chord in general is a very common and popular chord. The E flat minor 7 chord (Ebm7) is an E flat minor chord (Eb – Gb – Bb) with the ‘flat 7’ of the E flat Major scale included (Db).