Em chord on guitar
E minor
Em is a minor chord with three notes: E, G and B. Learn it first as an open shape: four open strings and two 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
- Middle on the A string, fret 2
- Ring on the D 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
- Twomiddle and ring
- Strings played
- All six
- Open strings
- Fourthe low E, G, B and high e strings
- Lowest note
- E2the root, on the low E string
- Frets
- 0 2 2 0 0 0low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Em
- Eroot
- Gminor third
- Bperfect fifth
A minor chord is the root, a minor third and a perfect fifth. The only difference from the major chord is the third, one fret lower. G is the minor third, three frets above the root. B is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: E4root
- B string: B3perfect fifth
- G string: G3minor third
- D string: E3root
- A string: B2perfect fifth
- low E string: E2root
Every note of Em is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- Barre at fret 7x 7 9 9 8 7Root on the A string.
Songs in Lark with Em
Two songs in the library strum Em. Open one for the full chord sheet, then play it with Lark and every chord gets checked.
Related chords
Other E chords
Relative major
The relative major of Em is G. The E natural minor scale uses the same seven notes as the G major scale.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Em 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.