Em69 is E, G, B, C# and F#. Start with and add the and .
Em69 often works as a minor tonic, giving you a fuller version of that still feels like home. The natural 6th is central to that sound.
Compare it with to isolate the 6th. has the ; Em69 has the instead. Those notes are a half step apart.
The flat 7th drops one fret to the 6th. These shapes leave out the 5th, making the change easy to hear.
Also written Em6/9, Emin6/9 or E-6/9.
Em69 is a tonic minor chord: it acts as the i of a minor key rather than a ii, and it has no seventh. It is the minor sixth chord with its root raised a whole step to the ninth.
Listen for: The V’s fifth holds into the i as its ninth. On the minor sixth chord it falls a whole step to the root.
Heard in“Summertime”“Blue Bossa”“Invitation”“Alone Together”
In which keys. Every note of Em69 belongs to D major and B minor.
Contains Em69 and adds fourth and flat seventh.
Contains Em69 and adds fourth and major seventh.
The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.
Shows each chord the way this style would voice it, and marks which of its alternatives belong to the idiom.