E7 chord on guitar
The E7 chord diagram on guitar, the notes it is built from, and the Alviena charts that use it.
The diagram
Songs to play with the E7 chord on guitar
- Lonely Day — System Of A Down
- Beggin — Madcon
- Hymne A L'amour — Edith Piaf
- Fly Me To The Moon — Frank Sinatra
- Marcia Baïla — Les Rita Mitsouko
- Tous Les Cris Les Sos — Daniel Balavoine
- Hotel California — The Eagles
- Ailleurs — Jean-Louis Aubert
- Ta Reine — Angèle
- Milord — Édith Piaf
- Happy — Pharell Williams
- Padam Padam — Edith Piaf
Which chords go with E7
Across the sheets in the catalogue, E7 most often appears alongside these chords. Learn them together and you can play a whole song.
The notes in E7
E · B · D · Ab
The chord is built from 4 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
4 open strings
| String | Fret | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | open | E |
| 5 | 2 | B |
| 4 | open | D |
| 3 | 1 | Ab |
| 2 | open | B |
| 1 | open | E |