Fm chord on guitar
F minor
Fm is a minor chord with three notes: F, Ab and C. Learn it first as a barre at fret 1, your index finger flat across all six strings. 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, all six strings
- Ring on the A string, fret 3
- Pinky on the D string, fret 3
The number in each note head is the finger: 1 index, 2 middle, 3 ring, 4 pinky.
Strings to skip
Nothing to skip: strum all six strings.
- Shape
- Barre at fret 1index finger across all six strings at fret 1
- Fingers
- Threeindex, ring and pinky
- Strings played
- All six
- Open strings
- Noneevery played string is fretted
- Lowest note
- F2the root, on the low E string
- Frets
- 1 3 3 1 1 1low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Fm
- Froot
- Abminor third
- Cperfect fifth
A minor chord is the root, a minor third and a perfect fifth. The only difference from the major chord is the third, one fret lower. Ab is the minor third, three frets above the root. C is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: F4root
- B string: C4perfect fifth
- G string: Ab3minor third
- D string: F3root
- A string: C3perfect fifth
- low E string: F2root
Every note of Fm is in this shape, some of them twice.
Other ways to play it
- Barre at fret 1x x 3 1 1 1Root on the D string.
- Barre at fret 8x 8 10 10 9 8Root on the A string.
Related chords
Other F chords
Relative major
The relative major of Fm is Ab. The F natural minor scale uses the same seven notes as the Ab major scale.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Fm 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.