guitar chord
Bm7
Minor triad with a minor seventh. The same four notes as a major sixth chord a third above.
Every fingering that fits a hand
x20202
open
x2020x
open · no 5
700405
easy · no 5
700407
easy · no 5
70040x
easy · no 5
What is true of it
Bm7 is B, D, F♯ and A — 1, b3, 5 and b7 counted from B.
These are also the notes of D6/B. Which name is right depends on what is underneath and what came before — the notes alone do not decide.
On an instrument that cannot reach all 4, the 5 goes first, in that order.
The easiest of the 5 fingerings below is x20202: 3 fingers, held at the 2nd fret.
2 of them use open strings, which is what makes a shape quiet to change to.
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
Bm7/D
xx0202
Bm7/F♯
200202
Bm7/A
x00202
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.