Six String Guitar · Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3

EmE Minor

G♯Root

Btone

D♯tone

Formula 3 · 5 · 7 · Notes G♯ · B · D♯

How to play it

Em fingering positions

Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3, 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, 6th (x 6 8 8 7 6) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3

E Minor guitar chord — M-shape, 11th (x x 13 11 11 11) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3

E Minor guitar chord — M-shape, 11th (13 13 13 11 11 11) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3

E Minor guitar chord — Open (1 1 x x x 2) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3

E Minor guitar chord — Open (1 x x 3 x 2) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3

E Minor guitar chord — Open (x x 1 3 x 2) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3

E Minor guitar chord — Open (1 x 4 3 x x) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3

E Minor guitar chord — Open (1 1 4 x x x) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3

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, 6th (x 6 8 8 7 6) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3

E Minor guitar tab — M-shape, 11th (x x 13 11 11 11) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3

E Minor guitar tab — M-shape, 11th (13 13 13 11 11 11) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3

E Minor guitar tab — Open (1 1 x x x 2) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3

E Minor guitar tab — Open (1 x x 3 x 2) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3

E Minor guitar tab — Open (x x 1 3 x 2) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3

E Minor guitar tab — Open (1 x 4 3 x x) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3

E Minor guitar tab — Open (1 1 4 x x x) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD) · Capo 3

Sound

How Em sounds

Consonance

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Brightness

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Character

Moods & genres

Moods

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Genres

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Theory

Notes & relationships

NotesG♯ · B · D♯

Formula (scale degrees)3 · 5 · 7

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