Em/D# guitar chord
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About Em/D#
Em/D# gives the bass its own instruction: keep the upper chord, but make the lowest note. The slash separates those two jobs.
D# is not in the upper triad; it completes a minor-major seventh chord with its seventh lowest. Hold the upper chord steady and move only the bass. That low line can connect nearby chords without jumping root to root.
Also written Em over D# or Em with D# in the bass.
What to play over Em/D#
Useful scales
- +F#AC
Contains Em/D# and adds ninth, eleventh and flat thirteenth.
- +F#AC#
Contains Em/D# and adds ninth, eleventh and thirteenth.
Chords near Em/D#
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3rd inversion 6th in bass 3rd inversion
The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.