D♯7 (dominant seventh) / E♭7 (dominant seventh)

4-note dominant 7th on D♯ / E♭D♯, G, A♯, C♯.

Press to hear the chord strummed low to high.

Major triad with a flat seventh — the engine of the blues and the chord that most wants to resolve.

The notes

Pitches taken from the first fingering below — click any note to open its frequency page.

Interval formula

DegreeNoteWhat it is
1D♯root
3Gmajor third
5A♯perfect fifth
♭7C♯flat seventh (dominant)

The formula reads in semitones above the root (D♯): 1, 3, 5, ♭7. A voicing may leave a tone out — often the fifth — but never adds one from outside this set.

Guitar fingerings · 4

1324
open position
6fr13141
from fret 6
8fr1112
from fret 8
11fr131211
from fret 11

Ukulele fingerings · 4

2
open position
6fr1211
from fret 6
8fr1324
from fret 8
11fr2314
from fret 11

Read a diagram top-down: the thick bar is the nut, dots are where to press (the number is which finger), means play the open string, means don't play it. A bar across strings is a barre.

Other D♯ / E♭ chords

7 (dominant seventh) chords on every root