Em(maj7)

E1G♭3B5D♯7

Minor triad, major seventh — the tonic chord of harmonic minor.

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

9776

hard

Fig. 3

9bba

hard

Fig. 4

x436

easy · no 5

What is true of it

Em(maj7) is E, G, B and D♯ — 1, b3, 5 and 7 counted from E.

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

The easiest of the 3 fingerings below is 9776: 4 fingers, held at the 6th 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.

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

Em(maj7)/G

0302

second inversion

Em(maj7)/B

4706

third inversion

Em(maj7)/D♯

8777

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

E7dominant seventh Emaj7major seventh Em7minor seventh Emajor Emminor Edimdiminished

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