EmMaj11 guitar chord
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About EmMaj11 — drop 3 voicings
EmMaj11 is E, G, B, D#, F# and A. It keeps every note of and adds the .
Keep the minor 3rd, major 7th, and 11th audible. On guitar, root and 5th can be left out to make room for those notes.
Also written EmM11 or Em(maj11).
What is drop 3
Drop the third voice from the top an octave instead. The wider gap skips a string, so the muted string is part of the shape.
That result, 3–R–5–7, is the shape usually meant by drop 3. Named by its bass note, as the inversions are here, it is the 1st inversion.
More familiar jazz shapes are drop 3 than drop 2.
How to use EmMaj11
How you get to it. The turn that lands on EmMaj11 is to : the ii and the V of E minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.
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What to play over EmMaj11
Useful scales
- +C
Contains EmMaj11 and adds flat thirteenth.
- +C#
Contains EmMaj11 and adds thirteenth.
Chords near EmMaj11
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The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.