Play D Minor on Your Guitar

A D minor chord is mostly used in metal songs and finds great use in bringing that negative feeling to a song.Learn to play it on your guitar with a few simple steps.

Steps

Standard Finger Positioning

  1. Observe the correct finger positions.
  2. Make sure your guitar is in the standard tuning
  3. Put your index finger on the 1st string, 1st fret
  4. Press the 3rd string second fret with your middle finger.
  5. Put your ring finger on the 2nd string 3rd fret
  6. Play the chord
  7. Check the proper fretting for each string:
    • E string - 1st fret
    • B string - 3rd fret
    • G string - 2nd fret
    • D string - open
    • A string - not played
    • E string - not played

Barred Chord

  1. Bar the fifth fret with your index finger
  2. Press the 2nd string with your middle finger on the 6th fret.
  3. Press the 3rd string with your ring finger on the 7th fret and the fourth string with your little finger on the 7th fret too.
  4. Now play the chord and voila, you've successfully played a d minor chord.
  5. Check the proper fretting for each string:
    • E string - 5th fret
    • B string - 6th fret
    • G string - 7th fret
    • D string - 7th fret
    • A string - 5th fret
    • E string - |5th fret



Tips

  • If you are a beginner in guitar playing, you should try out technique 1 first.
  • To practice d minor, follow the following chord progression. D minor-C major-Bb Major-Dminor

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