E chord on banjo

The E chord diagram on banjo, the notes it is built from, and the Alviena charts that use it.

The diagram

111

The notes in E

E · Ab · B

The chord is built from 3 distinct pitches. A shape may double them an octave apart: the same note then appears more than once without changing the chord.

The shape, string by string

1 open string · 1 muted string

StringFretNote
42E
31Ab
2openB
12E

Charts that use E

Other E chords

The same colour, on another root

E on other instruments