Next time I’ll teach you a third minor chord, Dm. A couple of songs that make good use of that E minor chord include “Ashes to Ashes” by Steve Earle and “20/20” by Alanis Morissette. If you’ve been keeping up with these videos you should know how to play C, G, and D chords how to switch between C and G and G and D and various A minor and now E minor shapes. Em Guitar Chord - 5-string barre Use your 1st finger to bar the strings at the 7th fret Place your 2nd finger on the 2nd string/8th fret Place your 3rd. The lowest note in this shape is G, but if you’re fingerpicking, you can add the low open E string so that the root is the bottom note. However, you can play just the top three notes of an E minor chord with strings 1–3 at the 12th fret. While on electric guitar it would be easy enough to play a full E minor barre chord at the 12th fret, unless your acoustic has a cutaway, this will be difficult or impossible. Or, take things in the opposite direction and play only the top three notes, as shown in Example 4b. Feel free to add the low open E string to this shape, for a fatter sound. Example 3 shows a leaner and less common E minor shape, in which only the note E is doubled.Īn E minor barre chord can be found in seventh position ( Example 4a). Try playing the chord with your second and third fingers on strings 5 and 4, as shown in notation, or your first and second fingers, as I do in the video. This chord shape makes the most of the guitar’s open strings (in standard tuning). On guitar, an E minor chord is most commonly played using the open position shape shown in Example 2, which contains three Es, two Bs, and one G.
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