Colour key
R234p567Each colour is a scale degree, counted from the key. A ♭ or ♯ note keeps its degree's colour: ♭3 is still amber.
E♭ Persian
Double harmonic with a ♭5 instead of the 5th. Dark, eerie, Middle-Eastern.
Where you hear it: Over a major ♭5 tonic; colour lines over a drone.
Step pattern H – W+H – H – H – W – W+H – H
- Compared with E♭ major: ♭2 F → F♭, ♭5 B♭ → B♭♭, ♭6 C → C♭
- Compared with E♭ natural minor: ♭2 F → F♭, ♯3 G♭ → G, ♭5 B♭ → B♭♭, ♯7 D♭ → D
E♭ Persian on the guitar
Pick a position below to outline it on the neck.
in the pentatonic r ♭2 3 ♭5 ♭6: playedother notes of Persian: not playedPlay runs up the position from its lowest note and back down; Sample melody plays a short tune using only its notes. Tap a position's name to see it on the neck.
Modes with the same notes as E♭ Persian
Persian is a scale of its own, not a mode of the major, harmonic minor or melodic minor scale, so no named mode shares its notes.
Every chord in E♭ Persian
- E♭maj7♭51/7easyfret 11· shell
- F♭maj71/24easyfret 12· shell
- Gsus21/2mediumfret 5· smaller chord, also fits
- A♭m(maj7)1/6mediumfret 11
- B♭♭sus41/3mediumfret 7· smaller chord, also fits
- C♭7♯51/11easyfret 4· shell
- Dsus2(♭5)(add?)1/2easyopen· adds mode notes
Each chord stacks every other note of the scale (root, 3rd, 5th, 7th). Tap a row to hear it.
Sus and extension chords from each chord
From E♭(♭5) you can go through the 2nd of the scale to sus2 and 9 chords, through the 4th to sus4 and 11, and so on. All seven chords of E♭ Persian.
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No common guitar shape for this chord in the library.
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