Chord

Eb Dominant b5

  • Eb7b5
Space plays and stops
Notes and intervals
EbM3G2BbbM3Db
Extends
Eb Dominant 7

Eb Dominant b5, written Eb7b5, is built from Eb, G, Bbb and Db: the root, major 3rd, flat 5th and minor 7th.

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 Eb7b5 as its tritone substitute.

Scales that fit

  1. Mode of Melodic Minor

    Eb Lydian Dominant

  2. Mode of Whole Tone

    Eb Whole Tone

    The whole tone scale is in open, suspended harmony and works well with #5 chords.

Voicings All 14