E5

E1B5

Root and fifth, no third at all — neither major nor minor, which is the point.

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x402

easy

Fig. 3

x477

easy

Fig. 4

9bcx

easy

What is true of it

E5 is E and B — 1 and 5 counted from E.

The easiest of the 3 fingerings below is x402: 2 fingers, held at the 2nd fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 5 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are E, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

E5/B

440x

An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.

E in other shapes

Emajor Emminor Edimdiminished

C5 C♯5 D♭5 D5 D♯5 E♭5 F5 F♯5 all 374