What is the +Em chord?

Question

I can't tell what the plus means. I don't think it means augmented here.

Here are the rest of the chords if that helps.

Title: 天才白痴梦
G Em
人皆寻梦
+Em Am
梦里不分西东
D Em
片刻春风得意
Am D
未知景物朦胧
D Em
人生如梦
+Em Am
梦里辗转吉凶
D Em
寻乐不堪苦困
Am D
未识苦与乐同
Em Am D G
天造之才皆有其用
Em Am D
振翅高飞无须在梦中
Em
南柯长梦
+Em Am
梦去不知所踪
D Em
醉翁它朝醒觉
Am D
是否跨凤乘龙

Answer 1

I agree, it seems weird for that to indicate an augmented chord, since technically there is no such thing as an augmented minor chord in conventional music theory (as the previous poster pointed out)...even then it would be written Em+, and not +Em. If you look at the song structure, all instances of "+Em" occur when "Em" is the last chord played on the preceeding line. If I would to hazard a guess, it might be some weird way of indicating that the first Em chord is held/sustained from the previous instance. Hard to say.

Answer 2

There's no such thing as +Em



Even if it did mean "minor augmented", there's no such thing as that either.



Think about it. E minor augmented would have the notes E G and B# in it. B# is the same thing as C, so you've got C E and G notes... it's a C major chord.

Answer 3

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