guitar chord
B♭7
Major triad, minor seventh. The chord that wants to resolve a fourth up.
Written the other way round it is A♯7 — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.
Every fingering that fits a hand
x10131
moderate
686766
moderate · barre
x1013x
open · no 5
x13131
moderate · barre
x10134
hard · no 5
What is true of it
B♭7 is B♭, D, F and A♭ — 1, 3, 5 and b7 counted from B♭.
On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.
The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x10131: 4 fingers, held at the 1st fret.
1 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.
2 of the 5 need a barre.
1 string stays silent.
Where its notes are on the neck
The brass dots are B♭, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.
With a different note underneath
B♭7/D
xx0334
B♭7/F
1101xx
B♭7/A♭
45036x
An inversion is the same chord with a different note lowest. The name changes to a slash name because the bass is what a listener hears as the foundation.