Em chord on mandolin

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

The diagram

Songs to play with the Em chord on mandolin

Which chords go with Em

Across the sheets in the catalogue, Em most often appears alongside these chords. Learn them together and you can play a whole song.

The notes in Em

G · E · 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

StringFretNote
4openG
32E
22B
1openE

Other E chords

The same colour, on another root

Em on other instruments