Four String Banjo · Irish Tenor (GDAE)

Em♯5E Minor Sharp 5th

G♯Root

Btone

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Formula 3 · 5 · 1 · Notes G♯ · B · E

How to play it

Em♯5 fingering positions

Irish Tenor (GDAE), 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 Sharp 5th guitar chord — 2nd position (x 2 3 3) fretboard diagram in Irish Tenor (GDAE)

E Minor Sharp 5th guitar chord — 8th position (9 x 10 8) fretboard diagram in Irish Tenor (GDAE)

E Minor Sharp 5th guitar chord — 8th position (9 10 10 8) fretboard diagram in Irish Tenor (GDAE)

E Minor Sharp 5th guitar chord — 9th position (9 10 10 x) fretboard diagram in Irish Tenor (GDAE)

E Minor Sharp 5th guitar chord — 9th position (9 10 10 12) fretboard diagram in Irish Tenor (GDAE)

E Minor Sharp 5th guitar chord — 14th position (x 14 15 15) fretboard diagram in Irish Tenor (GDAE)

E Minor Sharp 5th guitar chord — 20th position (21 x 22 20) fretboard diagram in Irish Tenor (GDAE)

E Minor Sharp 5th guitar chord — 20th position (21 22 22 20) fretboard diagram in Irish Tenor (GDAE)

Read it as tab

Em♯5 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 Sharp 5th guitar tab — 2nd position (x 2 3 3) in Irish Tenor (GDAE)

E Minor Sharp 5th guitar tab — 8th position (9 x 10 8) in Irish Tenor (GDAE)

E Minor Sharp 5th guitar tab — 8th position (9 10 10 8) in Irish Tenor (GDAE)

E Minor Sharp 5th guitar tab — 9th position (9 10 10 x) in Irish Tenor (GDAE)

E Minor Sharp 5th guitar tab — 9th position (9 10 10 12) in Irish Tenor (GDAE)

E Minor Sharp 5th guitar tab — 14th position (x 14 15 15) in Irish Tenor (GDAE)

E Minor Sharp 5th guitar tab — 20th position (21 x 22 20) in Irish Tenor (GDAE)

E Minor Sharp 5th guitar tab — 20th position (21 22 22 20) in Irish Tenor (GDAE)

Sound

How Em♯5 sounds

Consonance

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Character

Moods & genres

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Genres

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Theory

Notes & relationships

NotesG♯ · B · E

Formula (scale degrees)3 · 5 · 1

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