D♯maj7 (major seventh) / E♭maj7 (major seventh)

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

Press to hear the chord strummed low to high.

Major triad topped with the leading tone a semitone below the octave — dreamy, floating, unmistakably jazzy.

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
7Dmajor seventh

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

333
open position
3fr43111
from fret 3
6fr113241
from fret 6
8fr1114
from fret 8

Ukulele fingerings · 4

3fr1113
from fret 3
5fr4321
from fret 5
6fr2311
from fret 6
8fr1234
from fret 8

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

maj7 (major seventh) chords on every root