Em chord on banjo

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

The diagram

The notes in Em

E · G · 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

2 open strings · 1 muted string

StringFretNote
42E
3openG
2openB
12E

Charts that use Em

Other E chords

The same colour, on another root

Em on other instruments