Dm(maj7)

D1F♭3A5C♯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

7554

hard

Fig. 3

7998

hard

Fig. 4

x214

easy · no 5

What is true of it

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

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

The easiest of the 3 fingerings below is 7554: 4 fingers, held at the 4th 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. 5 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

second inversion

Dm(maj7)/A

2214

third inversion

Dm(maj7)/C♯

6555

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.

D in other shapes

D7dominant seventh Dmaj7major seventh Dm7minor seventh Dmajor Dmminor Ddimdiminished

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