Six String Guitar · Standard Tuning (EADGBE)

Em6♯5E Minor 6th Sharp 5th

G♯Root

Btone

Etone

Ftone

Formula 3 · 5 · 1 · ♭2 · Notes G♯ · B · E · F

How to play it

Em6♯5 fingering positions

Standard Tuning (EADGBE), 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 6th Sharp 5th guitar chord — Open (0 4 x 0 1 x) fretboard diagram in Standard Tuning (EADGBE)

E Minor 6th Sharp 5th guitar chord — Open (0 4 x 0 1 0) fretboard diagram in Standard Tuning (EADGBE)

E Minor 6th Sharp 5th guitar chord — Open (0 4 x x 1 3) fretboard diagram in Standard Tuning (EADGBE)

E Minor 6th Sharp 5th guitar chord — Open (0 4 x 0 1 3) fretboard diagram in Standard Tuning (EADGBE)

E Minor 6th Sharp 5th guitar chord — Open (0 4 2 0 1 x) fretboard diagram in Standard Tuning (EADGBE)

E Minor 6th Sharp 5th guitar chord — Open (0 4 2 0 1 0) fretboard diagram in Standard Tuning (EADGBE)

E Minor 6th Sharp 5th guitar chord — Open (0 4 2 x 1 3) fretboard diagram in Standard Tuning (EADGBE)

E Minor 6th Sharp 5th guitar chord — Open (0 4 2 0 1 3) fretboard diagram in Standard Tuning (EADGBE)

Read it as tab

Em6♯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 6th Sharp 5th guitar tab — Open (0 4 x 0 1 x) in Standard Tuning (EADGBE)

E Minor 6th Sharp 5th guitar tab — Open (0 4 x 0 1 0) in Standard Tuning (EADGBE)

E Minor 6th Sharp 5th guitar tab — Open (0 4 x x 1 3) in Standard Tuning (EADGBE)

E Minor 6th Sharp 5th guitar tab — Open (0 4 x 0 1 3) in Standard Tuning (EADGBE)

E Minor 6th Sharp 5th guitar tab — Open (0 4 2 0 1 x) in Standard Tuning (EADGBE)

E Minor 6th Sharp 5th guitar tab — Open (0 4 2 0 1 0) in Standard Tuning (EADGBE)

E Minor 6th Sharp 5th guitar tab — Open (0 4 2 x 1 3) in Standard Tuning (EADGBE)

E Minor 6th Sharp 5th guitar tab — Open (0 4 2 0 1 3) in Standard Tuning (EADGBE)

Sound

How Em6♯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 · E · F

Formula (scale degrees)3 · 5 · 1 · ♭2

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