One of the easier open string chords, D minor sits comfortably under the fingers. For the basic open string shape we prefer finger four to finger three on the B string, because it is more compact and leaves finger three available for quick changes to G major. Try it both ways and see what you think.
with its long descending bassline intro. Usefully, D minor is also chord II in C major and chord VI in F major.
A four-note chord, the high position of D minor means that it’s fairly lightweight, but this can be fixed by using drop D tuning, where the low E string is tuned down a tone to D. In drop D the open sixth string could be added as a bass note to most of the following shapes.
How To Play D Minor (dm) Guitar Chord
The notes of D minor are D, F and A, which are the root, minor third and perfect fifth. These are steps one, three and five of a D minor scale. Depending on the shape, you could try experimenting with adding the open E or B string to these chords, giving you either D minor add nine or D minor sixth.
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Mute the low E string by allowing your thumb to come over the top edge of the neck. If you are strumming, try to concentrate on the top four strings. You can get away with the open A occasionally, but the E just doesn’t go unless you’re in drop D.
Dm Chord On The Guitar (d Minor)
Taking each note of figure 1 up the neck to the next note of the chord gives you a sparkling and chiming voicing at the fifth fret. If you leave out the open bass note the top three strings give you a root position chord and sound sweet as delicate arpeggios.
Moving up the neck again, a half bar across the 10th fret adds even more sparkle and chime. In this position the top three strings give you a first inversion chord, with the third in the bass. Try finger picking arpeggios while moving between figures one, two and three.
D minor works well as a barre chord at the fifth fret, and you should try hammering-on fingers two, three and four while holding down the barre. Then experiment with occasionally releasing the pressure on the strings for some funky percussive strumming.
How To Play D Minor On Guitar
Here we have the other movable bar chord version of D minor, based on the open E minor shape. Doing a barre this high up the neck can be tricky on some s as the body gets in the way, but you should be fine on most electrics and 14 fret acoustics.
This shape removes the surplus notes from figure 5 and uses the thumb over the fingerboard to hold down the E string. If that is awkward for you, use fingers one, two and three at the 10th fret and finger four at the 12th fret. Mute the unwanted strings with the undersides of the fingers.
Staying with “thumb-over” chords for a moment, we’ve added the note C on the B string. C is the minor seventh, and when added to D minor it creates a chord of D minor seven. The minor seventh is the note most frequently added to a minor chord.
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Sliding the pinkie one fret lower in pitch gives you the note B, which is the major sixth over the root note and produces a D minor six chord. Just to be clear, D minor seven is made by adding the minor seventh, but D minor six adds the major sixth.
Here we have a thicker voicing of the minor seventh, with the added C an octave lower. Hold the barre while hammering-on with fingers two and three. Then try releasing the fret hand pressure to mute the strings with the index finger and get your percussive strumming up to scratch.
This might not be the most comfortable chord to wrap your fingers around, but here we have the minor sixth in the lower voicing. Letting the top E open string sound as well will give you D minor six/nine, which sounds mysterious and evocative with all kinds of fingerpicked arpeggios.
The D Minor Chord
Rod Fogg is a London-based ist, teacher and writer. He is the author of The Ultimate Course (Race Point 2014), the Electric Handbook (Backbeat, 2009) and contributed to bestseller The Totally Interactive Bible (Jawbone Publishing, 2006).The D minor chord is a very popular guitar chord. The open Dm chord is one of the main chords that most guitarist learn early on in their chord development.
D minor is the relative minor of F Major. Since F Major (and the chord F) is a popular key, D minor is commonly used.
The standard way to play the D minor chord is in the open position, as shown below. This shape is part of a group of common open chords that most guitarists start off learning. The D minor chord is also found in commonly used keys on the guitar (such as C and F), so the chord itself gets used quite often on the guitar.
D Minor Chord On Guitar
The shape above is also the ‘easy’ version of the chord, as it uses only three fingers and does not involve any barring. There are other easy ways of playing the chord (such as triads), but the above shape is usually the first version of D minor that most guitarists learn.
The instructions above are step by step instructions for playing the common D minor chord shape. Forming the chord through step by step instructions is a great way of ensuring that you are interpreting the chord diagram correctly.
The D chord can be played as a barre chord by playing a root 6 barre chord shape and starting on the 10th fret or by playing a root 5 barre chord Major shape and starting on the 5th fret:
How To Play A D Minor Open Chord On Guitar
Playing triads is a great way of exploring the minor chord and the guitar fretboard more generally. By arranging the notes of the chord systematically using permutations (root position, first inversion, second inversion), interesting and unique shapes and voicings are created. The three different voicings for the D minor triad are:
The following shapes are alternative ways of playing the D minor chord shape. They’re not the most common Dm shapes, but used enough to include here as interesting alternatives.
Most D minor chords with extensions can be used as a substitute for the D minor chord. For example, Dm9, Dm11 and Dm6 can often be used to add colour and emotion to the D minor chord.
How To Play A D Minor Barre Chord On Guitar
For more interesting substitutions, playing variations of the F chord (which is the relative Major of D minor), such as D6, D69, Dmaj9 etc. can be used effectively as a substitute for the D minor chord.
The most common and effective scales that can be used to solo/improvise over the D minor chord, or to create melodies for the purposes of song writing are:A Dm guitar chord can be played either as an open chord or as a barre chord. The D minor chord contains three notes: D, F and A, and in most Dm guitar chord shapes, at least one of these notes is repeated in a different octave.
The symbol for a D minor chord is Dm, so if you see that symbol written on sheet music, any of the Dm chords on this page can be used.
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The open Dm chord, below, is a relatively easy way to play a D minor chord on guitar. Once you’ve mastered it, try either of the two Dm barre chords. Although they can be tricky to play at first, barre chords give you more control over your strumming patterns and can be more suitable in some situations.
In fact, because a Dm chord does include an A note, it won’t sound terrible if you accidentally play the open A string when strumming the Dm chord. However, the chord will sound “weaker” without the root note D being the lowest note in the chord.
The diagram below shows the second most common way of playing D minor on guitar. It uses the open Am shape, but played as a bar chord with the index finger positioned at the 5
The Dmin Chord
The X above the low E string on the chord diagram tells you that this string should not be played, so try to avoid this string when you strum the Dm chord.
When you are used to playing this chord, you can try muting the low E string with the tip of the index finger (the finger that is making the bar) – thereby preventing it from ringing.
The diagram below shows a way of playing D minor on guitar at the tenth fret. This is quite far up the fretboard, and you may find that most of the time either one of the other Dm chord shapes on this page are more suitable – especially on an acoustic guitar.
D Minor Piano Chord
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