Six String Guitar · Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

Em(add2)E Minor Added 2nd

G♯Root

A♯tone

Btone

D♯tone

Formula 3 · ♭5 · 5 · 7 · Notes G♯ · A♯ · B · D♯

How to play it

Em(add2) fingering positions

Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD), 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 Added 2nd guitar chord — Open (4 0 x 1 2 x) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

E Minor Added 2nd guitar chord — Open (4 0 x 1 2 2) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

E Minor Added 2nd guitar chord — Open (4 0 x 1 2 4) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

E Minor Added 2nd guitar chord — Open (4 0 4 1 2 x) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

E Minor Added 2nd guitar chord — Open (4 0 4 1 2 2) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

E Minor Added 2nd guitar chord — 2nd position (4 0 x x 2 4) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

E Minor Added 2nd guitar chord — 2nd position (4 x x 2 2 4) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

E Minor Added 2nd guitar chord — 2nd position (4 0 x 2 2 4) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

Read it as tab

Em(add2) 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 Added 2nd guitar tab — Open (4 0 x 1 2 x) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

E Minor Added 2nd guitar tab — Open (4 0 x 1 2 2) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

E Minor Added 2nd guitar tab — Open (4 0 x 1 2 4) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

E Minor Added 2nd guitar tab — Open (4 0 4 1 2 x) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

E Minor Added 2nd guitar tab — Open (4 0 4 1 2 2) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

E Minor Added 2nd guitar tab — 2nd position (4 0 x x 2 4) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

E Minor Added 2nd guitar tab — 2nd position (4 x x 2 2 4) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

E Minor Added 2nd guitar tab — 2nd position (4 0 x 2 2 4) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

Sound

How Em(add2) sounds

Consonance

2/ 5

Brightness

DarkBright

Character

Moods & genres

Moods

tensepoignant

Genres

rockexperimental

Theory

Notes & relationships

NotesG♯ · A♯ · B · D♯

Formula (scale degrees)3 · ♭5 · 5 · 7

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