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Fig. 1 · Em6 · easy

ukulele chord

Em6

E1G♭3B5C♯6

A minor triad with a major sixth added, which is why it is not simply a minor chord with a flat seventh.

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Every fingering that fits a hand

3
Fig. 2

x434

easy · no 5

7
Fig. 3

9797

hard · no 5

9
Fig. 4

9b9a

moderate · barre

7
Fig. 5

979x

easy · no 5

7
Fig. 6

979a

hard · no 5

What is true of it

Em6 is E, G, B and C♯ — 1, b3, 5 and 6 counted from E.

These are also the notes of C♯m7♭5/E and D♭m7♭5/E. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x434: 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 of the 5 need a barre.

It leaves out the 5. 4 strings cannot carry 4 notes, and the 5 is the one this chord can lose without changing what it is.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

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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

Em6/G

0102

second inversion

Em6/B

4704

third inversion

Em6/C♯

6704

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

E6major sixthEmajorEmminorEdimdiminished

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