That way, we wouldn’t even have to leave the 7th fret to switch from E minor to B minor. What if I told you that there was a B note on the 7th fret of the low E string too…Īnd that, using this note, we can construct a different bar chord shape to play B minor higher up the fretboard. Shiver me timbers! The next chord is B minor! And that’s an entire galaxy away down on the 2nd fret. All is fine and well as you dilly-dally there for a while, until… Picture this… You’re strumming a progression, and you play the E minor bar chord using the 7th fret of the A string as your root note. So you know the first B minor bar chord shape and that’s great.īut knowing a second shape is sooo useful when playing progressions with other bar chords in. You play this shape on the second fret of the guitar, you’ve got yourself a B minor chord. Woohoo! Bet you never though you could ever do that, huh?Īnd that’s it.
That means that if we slide this exact bar shape all the way up to the 6th fret and use this Eb as our root note, we make an Eb minor chord.
If you don’t know which notes and numbers correlate to which strings, then click here to view my post on that, it’ll make communicating with other guitarists much easier.Īnd you can use this concept to play ANY minor bar chord using its A string root note.įor example, the note on the 6th fret of the A string is an Eb. This is the one that you’ll see people use the most, and even if you’ve never even tried to play a bar chord before, here’s a great place to start!
#B MINOR CHORD GUITAR MOVIE#
You’ll have to mute that string in the middle by lightly tapping it with your index finger or something.Īnd when you’re vigorously strumming and belting out the lyrics to The Emoji Movie at 2 o’clock in the morning despite living in a shared apartment, you’re gonna end up accidentally pressing down that G-string and it’ll ruin your étude. Plus, by lifting your finger off the 4th fret in the second shape, you are replacing one of the 5ths in the B minor chord with another minor 3rd.Īnd chords always sound better with two 5ths in them rather than two minor 3rds.Īlso …um… there’s a final shape that you can use if all else fails, but it ain’t pretty:
#B MINOR CHORD GUITAR FREE#
Plus, you don’t have to bar anything, which is nice.Īnd if you really want a proper open chord B minor shape, then feel free to just lift and shift a finger or two and play this one instead:īut I much prefer the first one because it’s easier to mute the strings you don’t want, and you don’t have to choke that D string when you want to change to a different chord. That’s technically not an open position shape because there’s no open strings being played.īut do you know what? It’s pretty darn close to where all the other open chords are, so that’s good enough for me.
#B MINOR CHORD GUITAR HOW TO#
Most people just use the B minor bar chord shape.īut not everyone is a bar chord player yet – although I’ll still teach you how to become one in this post – so I’ve crafted a couple of open position shapes for y’all to use.Īlright, I lied. I’ll let you know my favourites, as well as some extra info on how bar chords work along the way. Today we return to another episode on the forgotten B chords – the B Minor chord – and how you can play both its open position and bar chord shapes on guitar.
Buzz, buzz, buzz… Hmm, what’s that noise? Aha, yes! It’s a B!
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