E Major Guitar Chord

The fundamental chord with a bright, happy and stable sound. Forms the basis of most popular, rock, folk and classical music. Consists of three notes: the root, major third and perfect fifth.

Guitar

Strings 0–2–2–1–0–0

How to play the E Major chord on guitar

Read the string pattern 0–2–2–1–0–0 from the low E string to the high E string. Numbers in the pattern are frets; numbers in the colored dots are left-hand fingers. X means a muted string and 0 means an open string.

6th string (low E) Play open

5th string (A) Fret 2 · middle finger

4th string (D) Fret 2 · ring finger

3rd string (G) Fret 1 · index finger

2nd string (B) Play open

1st string (high E) Play open