Music Theory Tools

Guitar tuning

E Flat Standard Tuning

E flat standard lowers every string from standard tuning by one semitone while preserving familiar standard-tuning shapes.

Notes low to high
EbAbDbGbBbEb
Strings
6
Default frets
24
Open pitch range
Eb2 to Eb4
24-fret pitch range
Eb2 to Eb6
Also called
Half-Step Down, Eb Standard

Common uses

Open this tuning in the fretboard tool

Start with e flat standard tuning loaded, then adjust root, scale, fret count, labels, colors, and orientation.

Open in interactive fretboard
Eb Minor Pentatonic Guitar Scale core scale for this tuning's low-string root Eb Minor Blues Guitar Scale blues and rock vocabulary around the low-string root Eb Natural Minor (Aeolian) Guitar Scale full minor-key reference pattern Eb Major (Ionian) Guitar Scale major-scale reference pattern

Scale diagrams in this tuning

Eb Minor Pentatonic Guitar Scale E Flat Standard Tuning Eb Minor Blues Guitar Scale E Flat Standard Tuning Eb Natural Minor (Aeolian) Guitar Scale E Flat Standard Tuning Eb Major (Ionian) Guitar Scale E Flat Standard Tuning
Eb Minor Guitar Arpeggio core minor-triad outline around the tuning root Eb Minor 7 Guitar Arpeggio minor seventh vocabulary around the tuning root Eb Major Guitar Arpeggio major-triad reference around the tuning root Eb Dominant 7 Guitar Arpeggio dominant seventh reference around the tuning root

Arpeggio diagrams in this tuning

Eb Minor Guitar Arpeggio E Flat Standard Tuning Eb Minor 7 Guitar Arpeggio E Flat Standard Tuning Eb Major Guitar Arpeggio E Flat Standard Tuning Eb Dominant 7 Guitar Arpeggio E Flat Standard Tuning