E11 banjo chord

How to play E11 on banjo

The most common way, the first shape above: your index finger on the low D string at the 2nd fret and your middle finger on the G string at the 2nd fret. Let the B and high D strings ring open. Don’t play the short G string.

From the short G string x 2 2 0 0 (x: not played, 0: open)

What notes are in E11?

E11, E dominant eleventh, is E, G♯, B, D, F♯ and A: the root (E), the major third (G♯), the perfect fifth (B), the minor seventh (D), the ninth (F♯) and the eleventh (A). Its formula is 1 3 5 ♭7 9 11.