Emaj7 chord on guitar
E major 7th
Emaj7 is a major 7th chord with four notes: E, G#, B and D#. Learn it first as an open shape: three open strings and three fingers on the frets. Below: where each finger goes, which strings to skip and one more way to play it.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right. The chord detector is free and listens through your mic.
How to play it
- Index on the D string, fret 1
- Middle on the G string, fret 1
- Ring on the A string, fret 2
The number in each note head is the finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Strings to skip
Nothing to skip: strum all six strings.
- Shape
- Open shape
- Fingers
- Threeindex, middle and ring
- Strings played
- All six
- Open strings
- Threethe low E, B and high e strings
- Lowest note
- E2the root, on the low E string
- Frets
- 0 2 1 1 0 0low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Emaj7
- Eroot
- G#major third
- Bperfect fifth
- D#major seventh
A major 7th chord is a major chord with a major seventh added, one fret below the root an octave up. G# is the major third, four frets above the root. B is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root. D# is the major seventh, eleven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: E4root
- B string: B3perfect fifth
- G string: G#3major third
- D string: D#3major seventh
- A string: B2perfect fifth
- low E string: E2root
Every note of Emaj7 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- Barre at fret 7x 7 9 8 9 7Root on the A string.
Related chords
All 111 chords in the chartStrum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Emaj7 and Lark names the chord it hears, with the notes in it. In the app, the chord book has all 111 chords, string by string.