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Hello, a Jazz chart which I am playing has us solo over an E flat Major triad with a pedal E underneath. Any tips and tricks for doing this?

Hi Folks.

I think that this chord symbol , Eb maj triad/ E , may have been written to indicate the E diminished chord ( E° ) .
You can read the Eb triad as D# , G , Bb , which would be the major 7th ( D#) , the minor 3rd ( G) , the b5th (Bb) of the E° chord .
So the chord can be E , G , Bb , D# . The common E diminished chord would be E, G, Bb , Db ; in this case is highlighted the maj 7th (D#) , instead of the diminished 7th (Db) .
You can play over this chord the E diminished scale ( 1 step / 1/2 step) : E , F# , G , A , Bb , C , Db , Eb .
Also , on a diminished chord , we can have an Upper Structure Triad on the major 7th grade of the scale .
In this case , if we think as E° , the UST would be Eb/G/Bb.

Regards
Giancarlo