Bm(maj7)

B1D♭3F♯5A♯7

Minor triad, major seventh — the tonic chord of harmonic minor.

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

4221

moderate

Fig. 3

4665

moderate

What is true of it

Bm(maj7) is B, D, F♯ and A♯ — 1, b3, 5 and 7 counted from B.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 2 fingerings below is 4221: 4 fingers, held at the 1st fret.

None of them uses an open string, so this chord moves up the neck unchanged — the same shape 1 fret higher is the chord a semitone above.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 4 — first 12 frets

The brass dots are B, the root. Everything else is a chord tone with its degree printed in it.

With a different note underneath

first inversion

Bm(maj7)/D

7a79

third inversion

Bm(maj7)/A♯

3222

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.

B in other shapes

B7dominant seventh Bmaj7major seventh Bm7minor seventh Bmajor Bmminor Bdimdiminished

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