E m11 Chord on Puerto Rican Cuatro
Play E m11 on Puerto Rican Cuatro: diagrams, finger positions, intervals, and every voicing up and down the neck for this instrument.
The E m11 chord is a minor extended chord that stacks higher tensions over a minor-seventh foundation. It is built from the notes E, F#, G, A, B, D. This page shows how to play E m11 on Puerto Rican Cuatro with clear fretboard diagrams and suggested finger positions.
The shape nearest the nut leaves the A, D and G strings open and takes the rest at fret 2, reaching across 4 frets. E falls on the B string. It sounds from F#3 up to G4.
Puerto Rican Cuatro is strung in five courses of two, the lower two paired an octave apart, so each stopped note here sounds as two — which is why the shape rings thicker than the same grip on a single-strung instrument.
Browse alternate voicings to find the one that sits best under your fingers, then compare it with the other chord types built on E or explore the same shape in nearby keys. The diagrams list the notes in each voicing so you can connect the shape to the theory behind it.