E major piano chord - EM
The E major chord is a 3-note chord consisting of the notes E, G# and B.
You can see these notes highlighted in the interactive piano chart below.
The chord itself is often abbreviated as EM.
Interactive piano diagram for the E major chord
Extended Chords
Chords that are a superset of EM. The chords include more notes but always E, G# and B.
Reduced chords
Chords that are a subset of EM. These contain less notes but all of them are included in EM.
Scales with EM
Below you find all scales that include EM:
- major pentatonic
- major
- major blues
- bebop
- lydian
- mixolydian
- ionian pentatonic
- mixolydian pentatonic
- lydian pentatonic
- flat six pentatonic
- scriabin
- lydian dominant pentatonic
- augmented
- double harmonic lydian
- mixolydian b6
- lydian dominant
- augmented heptatonic
- lydian minor
- phrygian dominant
- harmonic major
- double harmonic major
- hungarian major
- flamenco
- lydian #9
- purvi raga
- spanish heptatonic
- bebop minor
- bebop major
- ichikosucho
- half-whole diminished
- kafi raga
- composite blues
- messiaen's mode #3
- chromatic
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E major piano chord chart image
In case you prefer a non-interactive variant of the chord chart, we've embedded a PNG image below that shows the notes for the the EM chord. Feel free to save or share the image as needed.