Eaug

E1G♯3B♯♯5

Two major thirds stacked. Symmetrical: every note can be heard as the root.

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x443

easy

Fig. 3

988x

easy

Fig. 4

9887

hard

Fig. 5

988b

hard

Fig. 6

9ccb

hard

What is true of it

Eaug is E, G♯ and B♯ — 1, 3 and #5 counted from E.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x443: 3 fingers, held at the 3rd 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. 7 — 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

Eaug/G♯

100x

second inversion

Eaug/B♯

5047

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 E5power chord Esus2suspended second Esus4suspended fourth

Caug C♯aug D♭aug Daug D♯aug E♭aug Faug F♯aug all 374