

Ring finger: 4th fret, 2nd string Version 3 It’s still easy to position your fingers and despite the way it looks, you can mute the necessary strings with some creative positioning of your thumb and forefinger. Ring finger: 4th fret, 2nd string Version 2 It may take some practice to avoid the strings you aren’t meant to play, but you’ll get there. Great for picking or plucking with your fingers but also easy to strum. You can’t play any of the open strings as none of the open strings are Eb, Gb, or Bb. With most of these chords you’ll have strings you need to avoid playing. Well, now that you have some basic theory under your belt, let’s get to ways to play Ebm. They’re also useful for chord progressions. The number after these keys indicate what interval the Eb is in the scale of these keys. The keys you will naturally find Eb minor in are: Small letters indicate minor chords, capital letters indicate major chords, and the chords with a little circle indicate diminished chords.įor the natural minor keys, the following are major, minor, and diminished chords: We can get which keys naturally contain Ebm by looking at diatonic chords. We take the first, third, and fifth intervals to get the Ebm chord: Here is the Eb natural minor scale which according to the circle of fifths has six flats: To get the Ebm chord, let’s look at the Eb natural minor scale. Then you can match the versions to whatever you’re playing. You can then pick and choose which work for you, although it never hurts to learn different ways to play a chord. While I’ll cover some theory, because a little bit of theory is always useful even if it’s not as exciting as just jamming, I’ll show you a bunch of ways you can play the Ebm chord. Having said that, it’s quite a nice chord. Of course, it can always be borrowed from one of those keys in a song that’s in a more common key to add some spice to the mix. There are only a few keys that naturally contain Ebm. The Ebm guitar chord, a.k.a E flat minor, is one of the rarer chords.
