Five String Banjo · Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD)

EmE Minor

G♯Root

Btone

D♯tone

Formula 3 · 5 · 7 · Notes G♯ · B · D♯

How to play it

Em fingering positions

Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD), low E on the left. Each dot is colour-coded by note — the ringed dot is the root. Numbers below show the fret per string (x = muted).

E Minor guitar chord — M-shape, 7th (x 9 7 9 x) fretboard diagram in Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD)

E Minor guitar chord — M-shape, 11th (14 12 11 14 x) fretboard diagram in Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD)

E Minor guitar chord — M-shape, 19th (x 21 19 21 x) fretboard diagram in Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD)

E Minor guitar chord — 2nd position (2 4 x x 5) fretboard diagram in Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD)

E Minor guitar chord — 2nd position (2 4 x 5 x) fretboard diagram in Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD)

E Minor guitar chord — 2nd position (2 4 x 2 5) fretboard diagram in Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD)

E Minor guitar chord — 2nd position (2 4 x 5 5) fretboard diagram in Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD)

E Minor guitar chord — 2nd position (2 4 4 x 5) fretboard diagram in Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD)

Read it as tab

Em guitar tab

The same voicings in tablature — high e on top, low E on the bottom. Each fret number is colour-coded by note; the ringed number is the root, × means don’t play that string.

E Minor guitar tab — M-shape, 7th (x 9 7 9 x) in Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD)

E Minor guitar tab — M-shape, 11th (14 12 11 14 x) in Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD)

E Minor guitar tab — M-shape, 19th (x 21 19 21 x) in Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD)

E Minor guitar tab — 2nd position (2 4 x x 5) in Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD)

E Minor guitar tab — 2nd position (2 4 x 5 x) in Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD)

E Minor guitar tab — 2nd position (2 4 x 2 5) in Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD)

E Minor guitar tab — 2nd position (2 4 x 5 5) in Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD)

E Minor guitar tab — 2nd position (2 4 4 x 5) in Sawmill / Mountain Modal (gDGCD)

Sound

How Em sounds

Consonance

5/ 5

Brightness

DarkBright

Character

Moods & genres

Moods

sadmelancholyserious

Genres

rockpopclassical

Theory

Notes & relationships

NotesG♯ · B · D♯

Formula (scale degrees)3 · 5 · 7

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