EmMaj11 guitar chord

Open string · Root position
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About EmMaj11 — open string 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).

EmMaj11 open string guitar chord diagram: E, G, B, D#, F#, A, played 005445
EmMaj11 open string guitar chord voicing: 0-0-5-4-4-5.

What is an open-string voicing

Open-string voicing
×EADGBE

An open string adds a note without a finger: a tension on top or a pedal below. These belong to their key and cannot be moved up the neck.

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.

Hear it land:→→

What to play over EmMaj11

Useful scales

Every scale

Chords near EmMaj11

Remove a note

Change one note

  • G → G#

    Raise the minor third to the major third.

    See Emaj11 chord →
  • open strings
    open strings
    D# → D

    Lower the major seventh to the flat seventh.

    See Em11 chord →

Minor chords on every root

The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.

Midi Settings

7.5
Play Style
One pass of the pick from the lowest string up, everything left ringing.
Instrument
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Style

Shows each chord the way this style would voice it, and marks which of its alternatives belong to the idiom.

Layout

Left Handed Mode