Standard
E minor thirteenth · Open position
Em13 guitar chord
What it is
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Standard
E major thirteenth · Open position
Standard
E major thirteenth sharp eleven · Frets 5–6
How to play Em13 on guitar
The most common way, the first shape above: your index finger on the A string at the 2nd fret and your middle finger on the B string at the 2nd fret. Let the low E, D, G and high E strings ring open.
From the low E string 0 2 0 0 2 0 (x: not played, 0: open)
What notes are in Em13?
Em13, E minor thirteenth, is E, G, B, D, F♯, A and C♯: the root (E), the minor third (G), the perfect fifth (B), the minor seventh (D), the ninth (F♯), the eleventh (A) and the thirteenth (C♯). Its formula is 1 ♭3 5 ♭7 9 11 13.
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