guitar chord
Em7
Minor triad with a minor seventh. The same four notes as a major sixth chord a third above.
Every fingering that fits a hand
020000
open
02000x
open
020003
open
020030
open
050003
easy
What is true of it
Em7 is E, G, B and D — 1, b3, 5 and b7 counted from E.
These are also the notes of G6/E. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.
On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.
The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is 020000: one finger, held at the 2nd fret.
4 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.
Where its notes are on the neck
The brass dots are E, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.
With a different note underneath
Em7/G
320000
Em7/B
x20000
Em7/D
xx0000
An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.