Chord

Eb Altered

  • Eb7alt
  • Eb7altered
  • Ebalt
  • Ebaltered
  • Eb7#9#5
  • Eb7#5#9
  • Eb7b9#9
  • Eb7#9b9
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
EbM3GM3B2Dbm3Fb2F#
Extends
Eb Dominant 7

Eb Altered, written Eb7alt, is built from Eb, G, B, Db, Fb and F#: the root, major 3rd, sharp 5th, minor 7th, flat 9th and sharp 9th.

Its 3rd and 7th, G and Db, are its guide tones: they say what kind of chord it is, so voicings are built around them and the root is often left to the bass. A7, a tritone away, has the same two notes the other way up, so it can stand in for Eb7alt as its tritone substitute.

In the progressions here, Eb7alt is the V7alt of the Minor ii-V Progression in Ab and the VI7alt of the Minor ii-V to ii-V-I Progression in Gb.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    Eb Super Locrian

Voicings All 14