Dm Guitar Chord 6 Easy Ways to Play with ChartsFact-checked by Paul MazzolaIn the world of guitar chords, D Minor D, F, A is one you might consider essential. It's usually part of that first batch of chords most guitarists learn, and if it's not, you can rest assured that they'll be picking it up shortly after when they encounter it in one of their favorite this chord is critical to your development as a guitarist, so today, we're going to cover a few of the most common variants including the barre chord version, along with some trickier voicings that will let you show off your chops. Let's begin!How to Play D Minor Guitar ChordWe'll begin with the tried and true, open position variation that just about every guitarist can recall from memoryDm guitar chordPlace your 1st finger on the 1st string/1st fretPlace your 2nd finger on the 3rd string/2nd fretPlace your 3rd finger on the 2nd string/3rd fretPlay string 4 openMute strings 5 and 6Three strings, three fingers, essentially - it's simplicity at its finest. One thing that tends to trip up beginners, however, is remembering to use that 2nd finger to cover the 3rd string instead of the 2nd string, which is a natural reaction.This is a straightforward problem to overcome, however. Just start slowly and train your 2nd finger to move to the 3rd string by repeatedly making your chord shape before you start some time, muscle memory will take over, and you'll be nailing this chord voicing each and every time you go for Guitar Chord - AlternateNext up, we'll cover another open position version of D Minor. This one, though, will take a bit more skill for you to pull offDm guitar chord alternatePlace your 1st finger on the 3rd string/2nd fretPlace your 2nd finger on the 4th string/3rd fretPlace your 4th finger on the 5th string/5th fretMute strings 1, 2, and 6The challenge here is twofold. First, you've got to get your pinky finger in on the game, and stretch all the way up to the 5th fret to play that "D." Second, you've got to play precisely enough that you only hit strings 3, 4, and 5 while you're strumming, ignoring or muting your outside strings for the best solutions to these challenges are simple, though. You'll have to start engaging your pinky more in your playing if you haven't done so already so that it's strong and nimble enough to stretch and press down on the strings for a decent-sounding for the strumming issue, try practicing shorter strokes with your pick, using only your wrist so that you can control your movement and avoid the strings you shouldn't Guitar Chord - BarreNow that we have the open position voicings out of the way, let's take a look at how you can play D Minor as a barre chordDm guitar chord barreUse your 1st finger to bar the strings at the 5th fretPlace your 2nd finger on the 2nd string/6th fretPlace your 3rd finger on the 4th string/7th fretPlace your 4th finger on the 3rd string/7th fretMute string 6If you already have a good understanding of barre chords, picking up this voicing should be an easy task. If not, though, you might want to work on strengthening your index finger which you'll use to make your bar, and taking a look at our tip guide on how to play barre chords Guitar Chord - Non-Barre 1While you're up near the 5th fret, you also have two non-barre options for playing D Minor. Tread carefully, though, because these will also take some slick finger positioning and skillful strumming/muting to playDm guitar chord non-barre 1Place your 1st finger on the 5th string/5th fretPlace your 2nd finger on the 1st string/5th fretPlace your 3rd finger on the 2nd string/6th fretMute strings 3, 4, and 6Dm Guitar Chord - Non-Barre 2Dm guitar chord non-barre 2Place your 1st finger on the 1st string/5th fretPlace your 2nd finger on the 2nd string/6th fretPlay string 4 openMute strings 3, 5, and 6Dm Guitar Chord - 7th Fret VariantLastly, if you want a higher-pitched sound for your D Minor chord, we recommend trying this variant, which you'll find on the 7th fretDm guitar chord 7th fret variantPlace your 1st finger on the 4th string/7th fretPlace your 2nd finger on the 5th string/8th fretPlace your 3rd finger on the 6th string/10th fretPlace your 4th finger on the 3rd string/10th fretPutting D Minor into PracticeStart by committing these D Minor chord voicings to memory, then pick up a few songs that prominently feature the chord and see how well you can play it on the fly. Afterwards, be sure to check out our complete library of chord variations, since there are even more versions of D Minor you can try on frets 8 and 10. As always, good luck, and happy practicing!

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 MORE Chord Clinic Learn to play 10 interesting A minor chord variationsD minor is a reasonably common key for songwriting – as an example, check out The Kinks’ Sunny Afternoon with its long descending bassline intro. Usefully, D minor is also chord II in C major and chord VI in F 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 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 is the last Chord Clinic column in its current form, but we hope you’ve enjoyed getting to grips with the myriad interesting shapes and inversions this column has brought to you over the years – happy chording!Figure 1Mute 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 2Taking 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 3Moving 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 4D 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 5Here 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 guitars as the body gets in the way, but you should be fine on most electrics and 14 fret 6This 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 7Staying 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 8Sliding 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 9Here 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 10This 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 the authorRod Fogg is a London-based guitarist, teacher and writer. He is the author of The Ultimate Guitar Course Race Point 2014, the Electric Guitar Handbook Backbeat, 2009 and contributed to bestseller The Totally Interactive Guitar Bible Jawbone Publishing, 2006.Find out more at the latest news, reviews and features to your

I get it that it just sounds nice, but what's the theory behind it You can make the observation that the blues often uses a minor third over a major chord and then try to make some comparison to this song. But just a stylistic comparison. It's true. And it probably is an appropriate comparison. But it doesn't explain why musicians do it. I think an important theory idea to consider is the difference between tonal scale degrees and modal scale degrees. The tonal degrees are the tonic and the perfect fifth above it and the perfect fifth below it. Those three degrees are present in many different scales and they set the solid foundation for a tonality key or mode. The modal degrees are the third and sixth tones of the scale and to keeps things simple include the second and seventh degrees. These degrees determine the key/scale/mode like major, Phrygian, Freygish, etc. etc. In very broad terms the tonal degrees stay in place, but the modal degrees can change around in various ways. In this song there is a D major chord using F, but there is also an F major chord the root of which is F natural. Also, while the D major chord is played there are melodic tones of F natural so that F and F natural sound simultaneously. The changing F and F natural is the first concern. Generically those tones are the third scale degree above D, the mediant of D, a modal degree. This fits nicely into our general concept that tonal degrees stay fixed but modal degrees are variable. Secondly the F and F sound simultaneously. That may seem strange, because relative to each other the two tones are a very dissonant minor second. When two tones differ chromatically like this, but occur in close proximity or simultaneously is can be called a false relation or cross relation. In various "classical" music styles there are sometimes false relations in the minor more between form of the sixth and seventh degrees. The blues does something similar, but with the third degree. But that's dropping back into stylistic comparisons. Why is this clashing of false relationships acceptable? I think the answer is that while to the tones seem to "contradict" each other they make sense as belonging to individual parts. Parts here means contrapuntal or melodic parts. In classical style if there is a false relationship of the sixth or seventh degrees it's usually because two parts are moving in opposite directions and direction is a factor determining the quality of those degrees. In blues and rock the quality of the third is usually separated by part. The guitar may play the major third in accompanying chords, but the voice sings a minor third in the melody part. If the parts are considered separately, you will normally find nothing unusual in the treatment of tones. Only when the parts are combined does the clash become apparent. You could say the integrity of the individual parts trumps the "vertical" combination of parts. Which is sort of like the classic counterpoint versus harmony view. In this song - if I'm hearing thing correctly, and also watching the singer's left hand on guitar in the video - the guitar part has a smooth chromatic line on the top of the chords F F♮ E F♮, while the refrain of the melody is built around an embellishment of a D minor chord D D D F♮ G A. The integrity of the two separate parts is perfectly clear. One is a slinky chromatic line, the other is a broken triad. Two parts that sound great separately go together and we don't mind the dissonant false relationship. So, the theory behind it... modal scale degree are variable in many styles of music dissonant false relations work when the clashing tones make sense within individual parts dissonance works when handled properly

Kunci Gitar / Chord D Minor atau Dm mempunyai susunan nada yaitu 1-3b-5 ataupun D-F-A. Cara untuk memainkan chord ini sangatlah mudah. Pada umumnya, bentuk paling sederhananya seperti gambar dibawah ini Untuk bentuk seperti pada gambar diatas merupakan bentuk umum yang biasanya dimainkan. Letak bassnya terdapat di senar nomor 4, sehingga jika ingin memainkan menggunakan cara genjreng maka usahakan melakukan genjrengan dari senar keempat ke bawah. Dengan begitu, maka jangan menggenjreng pada semua senar secara merata, namun tetap fokus di senar nomor 1 paling bawah hingga nomor 4 saja. Cara Memainkan Kunci D Minor pada Gitar Kunci D Minor atau D Mayor pada gitar dapat melengkapi saat belajar gitar untuk bisa menambah perbendaharaan chord yang dihafal. Bagi pemula yang masih tahap belajar sebaiknya menggunakan bentuk dasarnya seperti pada gambar diatas supaya tidak terlalu kesulitan saat berlatih. Untuk memainkan kunci D Minor ini sangatlah mudah yaitu seperti berikut ini • Silahkan letakkan jari telunjuk pada senar pertama di bagian fret 1. • Letakkan jari tengah pada senar ketiga di fret ke 2. • Selanjutnya letakkan jari manis pada senar ke 2 di bagian fret ke 3. • Setelah itu, petik senar keempat tanpa harus menekan pada fret manapun. Sementara untuk senar 5 maupun 6 tidak dibunyikan. • Petik perlahan pada senar 4 ke arah bawah. • Jika sudah, dengarkan pada setiap nada suara yang berasal dari chord tersebut. • Pastikan terlebih dahulu bahwa jari berada di posisi yang tepat agar suara yang keluar terdengar jelas. jika sebelumnya kamu sudah pernah belajar dan menghafal peletakan jari pada chord tegak / gantung, kamu juga bisa memainkan chord Dm seperti gambara dibawah ini. seperti yang dapat kita lihat pada gambar diatas, bentuk peletakan jarinya seperti pada chord F Mayor. Hanya saja peletakan jarinya diturunkan satu senar dan dimainkan mulai dari fret 5. Contoh Lagu dengan Nada Minor Lagu yang menggunakan tangga nada diatonis minor mempunyai harmoni yang mampu memberikan kesan lebih emosional, melankolis, terdengar sedih, mendayu-dayu, dan tidak semangat. Kunci nada D minor ini merupakan kunci lagu paling sedih, karena bisa memberikan kesan putus asa dan sengsara. Bahkan dapat membuat para pendengarnya merasa sedih atau menangis. Tangga nada diatonis terbagi menjadi dua yaitu mayor dan minor. Ciri-ciri dari tangga nada minor biasanya diawali dan diakhiri dengan nada La = A A B C D E F G A la si do re mi fa so la dan memiliki pola interval 1, ½, 1, 1, ½, 1, 1. Ada beberapa contoh lagu yang mempunyai nada minor seperti • Bubuy Bulan • Ambilkan Bulan • Bintang Kejora • Hymne Guru • Ibu Pertiwi • Gugur bunga • Bagimu Negeri • Tanah airku • Kasih Ibu • Mengheningkan Cipta • Syukur • Lagu Indonesia Pusaka Selain lagu di atas, ada banyak juga lagi barat yang mempunyai tangga nada minor yaitu seperti • Hotel California • Bad guy • I know is over • Gloomy Sunday • Umbrella • One Republic - Counting Star Mempelajari kunci D Minor tidaklah terlalu sulit karena pemain gitar bisa menciptakan suasana nada yang diinginkan. Melalui nada tersebut dapat dijadikan sebagai perwakilan perasaan yang sedang dirasakan oleh pemain gitar. Belajar Memainkan Kunci Gitar atau Chord D Minor

Dm Chord History Lesson The “Dark Knight” KeyThe Dm Chord Position on the Guitar Not So Hard, ReallyTheory and Practice The Pattern of the D Minor Scale ExplainedHarmonic and Melodic MinorsDm Chords And Other Chords, In The Key of D MinorChords in the Key of D MinorThe Dm Chord’s Use In Chord Progressions in D MinorJust A Few Great Songs in the Key of D MinorDm Chord History Lesson The “Dark Knight” KeyThe key of D minor, and the dm chord itself, has long been associated with a kind of womanly melancholy, a rich, “Lady’s Got the Blues” kind of sadness, and a sense of impending the classical world it was one of Scarlatti’s favourite minor keys, and Bach wrote his entire The Art of the Fugue in this key. Mozart needed D minor to create the poignancy we hear in his Requiem. And Beethoven’s unforgettable Symphony No. 9 used D minor to create a path of gloom leading up to the triumph of joy the joyous part, by the way, being helped along by switching the key to D major.D minor enhanced the melancholy dimension of The Dark Knight’s Zimmer has been accused of stubbornly holding on to the key of D minor in many of his compositions, notably for the films Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator, and The Dark who can forget Nigel Tufnel’s musical trilogy in D minor?Nigel holds forth on the mysteries of D minor.“It’s part of a trilogy, a musical trilogy I’m working on in D minor, which is the saddest of all keys, I find. People weep instantly when they hear it, and I don’t know why.” Nigel Tufnel in Spinal TapThe key of D minor is the relative minor of the key of F major. Why? Because both have the same key signature— one flat Bb. A minor key is always three half-tones lower than its relative major. Once you know that, you can figure out the relative minor of any major out more about minor scales and how they workThe Dm Chord Position on the Guitar Not So Hard, ReallyThe key of D minor, and the guitar chords like the Dm chord that are required of it, are relatively easy to play, so it’s worth your while to learn to play them well. Using our free Uberchord app can help you move from just alright to smokin’.The basic Dm chord shape can be moved up and down the neck of the guitar— if your right hand only strikes the three highest strings. Moved up one fret, D minor becomes D minor. Moved up two frets it becomes E minor, etc. This way you can add variety to your sound by using different chord shapes to play the same part of the beautiful logic of music theory that chords and keys can be so easily transposed. You can use this knowledge, and your budding knowledge of music theory, to figure out new chord positions on your own. G major chord? Move up the basic F major chord position two frets. Want your D major to sound a little higher? Play the basic B chord position at the fifth fret. Don’t know how to play an F major? Just move the F major chord up one fret. This knowledge is especially useful when you want to improvise guitar solos up the the neck of the and Practice The Pattern of the D Minor Scale ExplainedIf you’re a newcomer to this site, take a moment now to look at the differences between a major scale and a minor major keys, the tones in a minor key arrive in this sequencewhole tone, half tone, whole tone, whole tone, half-tone, whole tone, whole toneThe second and the fifth places in the scale are each one half tone above their preceding notes, and all the other notes are whole tones above their preceding notes. All natural minor keys follow this the scale of D minor the notes are D, E, F, G, A, Bb, and is the D minor scale, with D at its root and another D, an octave higher, at its sounding it out on your guitar by playing it according to this tablatureMemorise the notes on your guitar’s fretboard so that playing scales— and later improvising— will come a lot more easily. Get started on memorising the notes by reading this.Harmonic and Melodic MinorsLast week we introduced a new musical concept in minor keys harmonic minor keys, which are like the natural minors the minor keys we’ve been studying so far except for one tiny difference the seventh note is raised a half tone. In the key of D minor, this would raise the C to a C.This week we’re going to introduce you to melodic minor keys. A melodic minor scale raises the sixth and seventh notes of the scale but only when ascending. When descending, the melodic minor scale is exactly the same as the natural minor scale. You can see the differences Chords And Other Chords, In The Key of D MinorIt’s important to understand that not only are the sequences of tones different in minor keys, the chord patterns differ also, and the chords don’t follow the same pattern as the tones. In minor keys the chord sequence is as follows1st chord minor 2nd chord diminished 3rd chord major 4th chord minor 5th chord minor 6th chord major 7th chord majorThe Dm chord, which forms the root of the D minor scale, is made up of the notes D, F, and A— the first, third, and fifth notes of the key of D minor. On the guitar, using the Dm chord shape shown in the diagram, these notes arrive in this order mute, mute, D, A, D, does this chord sound so different from the D major chord? The only difference is in the first string The D major’s F becomes D minor’s F because that’s what D minor’s key signature dictates, and that’s all it takes to turn a sunny D major chord into a sombre D minor.The best musical education includes music theory. Learning music theory will make you a better musician and let you hold your head up when other musicians throw complicated terms around. Our blog has a helpful set of music theory articles to get you going in the right direction.Chords in the Key of D MinorIf you were to use every chord in the key of D minor, these would be the chords you’d useD minor, E diminished, F major, G minor, A minor, Bb major, and C majorThe D, G, and A chords are minor because in the natural minor scale unlike the major scale the chords at the first, fourth, and fifth positions of the key are E is a diminished chord because in the key of D minor it sits in second place, and in minor keys second place chords are in the major keys, the fifth chord— A minor in this case— can also be played as an Am7. Because it sits at fifth place, it has the privilege of being the chord announcing the ending of the chord progression, if not the end of the song itself, and is generally followed by the root chord D minor.Adding the seventh note of the key of A minor G to the A minor chord, creating an Am7, makes the A minor chord sound like it’s moving the action ahead, pushing on to the root chord D minor that usually comes next in the chord progression.The seventh note in a scale is called a leading tone because of the way it leads us to the tonic, or root note of the scale, so it’s a great note to add to a fifth chord to “push the action forward.” If you want to better understand 7th chords and how to use them, check out this article on our blog. And if you want to know more about chord progressions, read this article series.The Dm Chord’s Use In Chord Progressions in D MinorDevelop your musical skills by playing around with the progressions below, habituating your ear to the ways in which these chords, depending on their order and context, create the sounds of beginning, rising, falling, and repeat, here are the chords in the key of D minor D minor, E diminished, F major, G minor, A minor, Bb major, and C major. But throwing them together in any old order won’t sound like music. Why? Because chords need to come in an order that’s pleasing to the ear.“You Know I’m No Good,” by Amy WinehouseThis is why we have chord you play these chord progressions and get used to their sound, you’ll probably recognize them and be reminded of particular far the most common chord progression for folk, classical, jazz standards, country, and pop songs is loosely based on this progression I, IV, V, I that is, on the first, fourth, and fifth chords in each key, major or minor. In the key of D minor this becomes D minor, G minor, and A minor or Am7. Try playing these chords in this orderD minor—G minor—A minor Am7—D this progression a few times. Do you hear how even in this short progression the music has a clear beginning, middle, and end, especially if you use Am7?Now try playing through the following progressions, listening for the musical “messages” they might carry. Note which progressions sound finished and which ones leave you “hanging,” especially if they end with Am7. How long you play each chord is entirely your choice. Minor chords are typed with an “m,” diminished with a “dim,” and all other chords are major.Dm – AmAm7 – Bb – GmDm – Bb — Gm – AmAm7Dm – AmAm7 – Bb – F – Gm – Dm – Gm – AmAm7Dm – Dm – Dm – Dm – Gm – Gm – Dm – Dm – AmAm7 – AmAm7 – Dm – DmEdim – Gm – AmAm7Dm – Gm – AmAm7 – GmAmAm7 – Gm – DmBb – Gm – Dm – AmAm7Bb – AmAm7 – Bb – AmAm7Just A Few Great Songs in the Key of D MinorThe key of D minor is most often used for gloomy pieces, but within that category it has a remarkably broad range of Against The Machine’s “Killing In The Name Of” Santana’s “Black Magic Woman”. It can condemn emotional abuse, like Katy Perry’s “Part of Me.” can be the unfathomable sense of regret that follows the end of a destructive relationship, as in Miley Cyrus’s “Wrecking Ball” Beyonce’s “Crazy In Love” Think of D minor as that sensitive woman you know who feels deeply, gets depressed a lot, and always has deep wisdom to if you haven’t downloaded the Uberchord app yet, here are five great reasons why you should! The d minor chord is a really cool chord to use, but there are many more to use too, which we cover in our free blog. We have articles on topics as varied as passenger let her go guitar notes, “can you play guitar without a pick?” and mmm mmm mmm mmm chords. If these aren’t to your liking, then we suggest you search our blog for the topic you need help Steblin 1996 A History of Key Characteristics in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries, University of Rochester Press, p. 123 Emotions of the Musical Keys The 10 Most Used Chord Progressions in Pop and Rock and Roll

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