F♯m

F♯1A♭3C♯5

The major triad with its third lowered by a half step.

Written the other way round it is G♭m — the same twelve keys on a piano, a different piece of notation.

on guitar on piano the scale

Every fingering that fits a hand

Fig. 2

x654

easy

Fig. 3

b999

hard

Fig. 4

b99x

easy

Fig. 5

b99c

hard

What is true of it

F♯m is F♯, A and C♯ — 1, b3 and 5 counted from F♯.

On an instrument that cannot reach all 3, the 5 goes first, in that order.

The easiest of the 4 fingerings below is x654: 3 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.

1 string stays silent.

Where its notes are on the neck

Fig. 6 — first 12 frets

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

With a different note underneath

first inversion

F♯m/A

2120

second inversion

F♯m/C♯

x120

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.

F♯ in other shapes

F♯major F♯dimdiminished F♯augaugmented F♯5power chord F♯sus2suspended second F♯sus4suspended fourth

Cm C♯m D♭m Dm D♯m E♭m Em Fm all 374