Six String Guitar · Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE)

Em♭5E Minor Flat 5th

G♯Root

Btone

Dtone

Formula 3 · 5 · ♭7 · Notes G♯ · B · D

How to play it

Em♭5 fingering positions

Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE), 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 Flat 5th guitar chord — 2nd position (0 x x 2 x 3) fretboard diagram in Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE)

E Minor Flat 5th guitar chord — 2nd position (0 x 0 2 x 3) fretboard diagram in Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE)

E Minor Flat 5th guitar chord — 2nd position (0 x 3 2 x x) fretboard diagram in Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE)

E Minor Flat 5th guitar chord — 2nd position (0 x 3 2 x 0) fretboard diagram in Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE)

E Minor Flat 5th guitar chord — 2nd position (x x 0 2 x 3) fretboard diagram in Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE)

E Minor Flat 5th guitar chord — 2nd position (0 x 3 2 x 3) fretboard diagram in Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE)

E Minor Flat 5th guitar chord — 2nd position (0 x x 2 5 3) fretboard diagram in Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE)

E Minor Flat 5th guitar chord — 2nd position (0 x 0 2 5 3) fretboard diagram in Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE)

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 Flat 5th guitar tab — 2nd position (0 x x 2 x 3) in Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE)

E Minor Flat 5th guitar tab — 2nd position (0 x 0 2 x 3) in Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE)

E Minor Flat 5th guitar tab — 2nd position (0 x 3 2 x x) in Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE)

E Minor Flat 5th guitar tab — 2nd position (0 x 3 2 x 0) in Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE)

E Minor Flat 5th guitar tab — 2nd position (x x 0 2 x 3) in Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE)

E Minor Flat 5th guitar tab — 2nd position (0 x 3 2 x 3) in Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE)

E Minor Flat 5th guitar tab — 2nd position (0 x x 2 5 3) in Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE)

E Minor Flat 5th guitar tab — 2nd position (0 x 0 2 5 3) in Open E Tuning (EBEG♯BE)

Sound

How Em♭5 sounds

Consonance

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Character

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Moods

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Genres

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Theory

Notes & relationships

NotesG♯ · B · D

Formula (scale degrees)3 · 5 · ♭7

Same notes asE°

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