Chord

Eb Dominant 9

  • Eb9
  • Ebdom9
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
EbM3Gm3Bbm3DbM3F
Extends
Eb Dominant 7

Eb Dominant 9, written Eb9, is built from Eb, G, Bb, Db and F: the root, major 3rd, 5th, minor 7th and 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 Eb9 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Major

    Eb Mixolydian

  2. Mode of Dominant Bebop

    Eb Dominant Bebop

    The dominant bebop scale adds a major 7th passing tone to the Mixolydian mode, so that ...

  3. Mode of Melodic Minor

    Eb Lydian Dominant

Voicings All 8