Em6 arpeggio & chord for gypsy jazz

The Em6 arpeggio is built from the notes E (R), G (♭3), B (5), C# (6). On Haute Gitanerie you can see it across the whole guitar neck — contained position boxes, long diagonal forms, and its parent scale (E Dorian) — with note names in English (C D E) or solfège (Do Ré Mi).

The Em6 chord

The Em6 chord voicing uses those same notes (E (R), G (♭3), B (5), C# (6)). Switch the fretboard to Chords to see gypsy-jazz voicings for Em6, or keep Arpeggio to practise the tones one at a time — same shape, two ways to hear it.

How to practise the Em6 arpeggio

Start with a contained position box near the low strings, then move it up the neck fret by fret, or follow a diagonal form for a two-octave sweep in the manouche style. Every note is labelled with its interval (R, ♭3, 5, 6), so you always know where the root, third, fifth sit.

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Manouche alternatives

Em6 · Em6/9