EmMaj9 guitar chord
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About EmMaj9 — inversions voicings
EmMaj9 is E, G, B, D# and F# — with the ninth added on top.
It sounds the same unease with more colour over it. The ninth softens the edge without resolving anything.
Minor tonic — melodic minor, extended.
Also written EmM9, Em(maj9) or E-Δ9.
What an inversion is
How to use EmMaj9
How you get to it. The turn that lands on EmMaj9 is to : the ii and the V of E minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.
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What to play over EmMaj9
Every note of EmMaj9 is in E harmonic minor and E melodic minor.
Each of those is a page: the scale across the neck, and the chords it harmonises into — which is where EmMaj9 sits in it. Every scale.
Chords near EmMaj9
Change one note of EmMaj9 and you have (the minor third becomes the major third), (the major seventh becomes the sixth), (the major seventh becomes the flat seventh), (drop the ninth), (add the eleventh) or (drop the major seventh).
EmMaj9 is a minor chord — root, minor third, fifth. Minor 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.