E chord on guitar
The E chord diagram on guitar, the notes it is built from, and the Alviena charts that use it.
The diagram
Songs to play with the E chord on guitar
- La Zoubida — Vincent Lagaf'
- A Nos Actes Manqués — Jean-Jacques Goldman
- Papaoutai — Stromae
- Pour Que Tu M'aimes Encore — Céline Dion
- I Want To Break Free — Queen
- Whenever, Wherever — Shakira
- Je Ne Veux Pas Travailler — Pink Martini
- 99 Luftballons — Nena
- One Love — Bob Marley
- Hymne A L'amour — Edith Piaf
- Sous Le Vent — Céline Dion
- Californication — Red Hot Chili Peppers
Which chords go with E
Across the sheets in the catalogue, E most often appears alongside these chords. Learn them together and you can play a whole song.
The notes in E
E · B · Ab
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
3 open strings
| String | Fret | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | open | E |
| 5 | 2 | B |
| 4 | 2 | E |
| 3 | 1 | Ab |
| 2 | open | B |
| 1 | open | E |