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Guitar chord
Em Chord
Em is a minor chord rooted on E. Major with the third lowered a semitone. That one note is the whole difference between happy and sad.
The notes
Every Em chord anywhere on the neck is some arrangement of these 3 notes.
E1
G♭3
B5
How to play it
3 shapes, low on the neck to high. Tap any diagram to hear it. Green marks the root.