E5 chord on guitar
E power chord
E5 is a power chord with two notes: E and B. Learn it first as an open shape: one open string 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
- Index 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
Play only the low E, A and D strings. Keep the G, B and high e strings silent.
- Shape
- Open shape
- Fingers
- Twoindex and ring
- Strings played
- Threelow E, A and D
- Open strings
- Onethe low E string
- Lowest note
- E2the root, on the low E string
- Frets
- 0 2 2 x x xlow E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in E5
- Eroot
- Bperfect fifth
A power chord is only the root and the perfect fifth. With no third, it is neither major nor minor. B is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: not played
- B string: not played
- G string: not played
- D string: E3root
- A string: B2perfect fifth
- low E string: E2root
Every note of E5 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- At fret 7x 7 9 9 x xRoot 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 E5 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.