Dm7 chord on guitar
D minor 7th
Dm7 is a minor 7th chord with four notes: D, F, A and C. Learn it first as an open shape: one open string and two fingers on the frets, with the index finger flat across two strings at fret 1. Below: where each finger goes, which strings to skip and two more ways 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 B string to the high e
- Middle on the G string, fret 2
The number in each note head is the finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Strings to skip
Skip the low E and A strings and strum from the D string down.
- Shape
- Open shapeindex finger across two strings at fret 1
- Fingers
- Twoindex and middle
- Strings played
- FourD, G, B and high e
- Open strings
- Onethe D string
- Lowest note
- D3the root, on the D string
- Frets
- x x 0 2 1 1low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Dm7
- Droot
- Fminor third
- Aperfect fifth
- Cminor seventh
A minor 7th chord is a minor chord with a minor seventh added on top. F is the minor third, three frets above the root. A is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root. C is the minor seventh, ten frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: F4minor third
- B string: C4minor seventh
- G string: A3perfect fifth
- D string: D3root
- A string: not played
- low E string: not played
Every note of Dm7 is in this shape.
Other ways to play it
- Barre at fret 5x 5 7 5 6 5Root on the A string.
- Barre at fret 1010 12 10 10 10 10Root on the low E string.
Related chords
All 111 chords in the chartStrum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Dm7 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.