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B minor · A shape
Bm guitar chord
What it is
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B minor added ninth · Frets 7–9
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B minor added eleventh · Open position
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B minor major seventh · Frets 2–4
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How to play Bm on guitar
The most common way, the first shape above: lay your index finger flat across the five strings from the A to the high E at the 2nd fret, your ring finger on the D string at the 4th fret, your little finger on the G string at the 4th fret and your middle finger on the B string at the 3rd fret. Don’t play the low E string.
From the low E string x 2 4 4 3 2 (x: not played, 0: open)
An easier Bm
The full shape is a barre chord, hard at first. This one needs no full barre and sounds much the same: your index finger on the A string at the 2nd fret, your ring finger on the G string at the 4th fret and your middle finger on the high E string at the 2nd fret. Let the D and B strings ring open. Don’t play the low E string.
x 2 0 4 0 2
Bm, the easier shape
StandardOpen position · 5 strings
What notes are in Bm?
Bm, B minor, is B, D and F♯: the root (B), the minor third (D) and the perfect fifth (F♯). Its formula is 1 ♭3 5.
What is the difference between Bm and B?
One note. Bm has the minor third, D; B raises it a half step to D♯.
Can I play Bm7 instead of Bm?
Usually, yes. Bm7 adds A to the three notes of Bm, which softens it without changing what it does in a song.
What is the relative major of Bm?
D: it has the same notes as the key of B minor, and its chord shares two of the three notes of Bm.
Keys with Bm
Bm is the vi chord in D major, the iii chord in G major, the ii chord in A major, the v chord in E minor, the iv chord in F♯ minor and the i chord in B minor.
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