Bb7 chord on guitar
Bb dominant 7th
Bb7 is a dominant 7th chord with four notes: Bb, D, F and Ab. Learn it first as a barre at fret 1, your index finger flat across five strings. Below: where each finger goes, which strings to skip and one more way to play it.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right. The chord detector is free and listens through your mic.
How to play it
- Index flat across fret 1, from the A string to the high e
- Ring on the D string, fret 3
- Pinky on the B string, fret 3
The number in each note head is the finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Strings to skip
Skip the low E string and strum from the A string down.
- Shape
- Barre at fret 1index finger across five strings at fret 1
- Fingers
- Threeindex, ring and pinky
- Strings played
- FiveA, D, G, B and high e
- Open strings
- Noneevery played string is fretted
- Lowest note
- Bb2the root, on the A string
- Frets
- x 1 3 1 3 1low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Bb7
- Bbroot
- Dmajor third
- Fperfect fifth
- Abminor seventh
A dominant 7th chord is a major chord with a minor seventh added on top. D is the major third, four frets above the root. F is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root. Ab is the minor seventh, ten frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: F4perfect fifth
- B string: D4major third
- G string: Ab3minor seventh
- D string: F3perfect fifth
- A string: Bb2root
- low E string: not played
Every note of Bb7 is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- Barre at fret 66 8 6 7 6 6Root on the low E string.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Bb7 and Lark names the chord it hears, with the notes in it. In the app, the chord book has all 111 chords, string by string.