Emaj13 guitar chord
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About Emaj13 — inversions voicings
Emaj13 is E, G#, B, D#, F# and C# — with the thirteenth on top, and the eleventh left out.
It sounds full and wide open. Everything the major scale offers except the eleventh, which is left out because it fights the third.
Tonic — the major sound with most of the scale showing.
Also written EM13, EΔ13 or E major 13.
What an inversion is
How to use Emaj13
How you get to it. The turn that lands on Emaj13 is to — the ii and the V of E — and shares its third and seventh with , so the hand barely moves between them.
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In which keys. Every note of Emaj13 belongs to C# minor (the ♭III), E major (the I, the tonic), Ab minor (the ♭VI) and B major (the IV, the subdominant).
What to play over Emaj13
Every note of Emaj13 is in E major and E lydian.
Each of those is a page: the scale across the neck, and the chords it harmonises into — which is where Emaj13 sits in it. Every scale.
Chords near Emaj13
Change one note of Emaj13 and you have (drop the thirteenth), (the thirteenth becomes the eleventh), (drop the major seventh) or (the major seventh becomes the flat seventh).
Emaj13 is a major chord — root, major third, fifth. Major chords on every root.
The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.