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Your first guitar chord.

Turn an E minor chord into six ringing notes.

01 THE LITTLE IDEA

Here’s the lovely bit.

E minor uses the shape 0–2–2–0–0–0 from string 6 to string 1. Its notes are E, G, and B, with some repeated in another octave. Choose E minor, then press 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 in time. This lesson checks individual notes; the strum button lets you hear the whole chord separately.

Today’s little goalChoose E minor and pick strings 6 to 1, one per beat, then rest for two beats.

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