Gm chord on guitar
G minor
Gm is a minor chord with three notes: G, Bb and D. Learn it first as a barre at fret 3, your index finger flat across all six 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 3, all six strings
- Ring on the A string, fret 5
- Pinky on the D string, fret 5
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 3index finger across all six strings at fret 3
- Fingers
- Threeindex, ring and pinky
- Strings played
- All six
- Open strings
- Noneevery played string is fretted
- Lowest note
- G2the root, on the low E string
- Frets
- 3 5 5 3 3 3low E to high e, x means skip it
The notes in Gm
- Groot
- Bbminor third
- Dperfect 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. Bb is the minor third, three frets above the root. D is the perfect fifth, seven frets above the root.
String by string
- high e string: G4root
- B string: D4perfect fifth
- G string: Bb3minor third
- D string: G3root
- A string: D3perfect fifth
- low E string: G2root
Every note of Gm is in this shape, some of them twice.
Another way to play it
- Barre at fret 10x 10 12 12 11 10Root on the A string.
Related chords
Other G chords
Relative major
The relative major of Gm is Bb. The G natural minor scale uses the same seven notes as the Bb major scale.
Strum it and Lark tells you if it is right.
Open the chord detector, play Gm 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.