F MINOR CHORD HOW TO

F MINOR CHORD HOW TO

Secondary dominant chords ALWAYS contain a note outside of the home key, but still can be explained by their relationship to the key. F Minor guitar chords The below diagrams show you how to play the F minor chord in various positions on the fretboard with suggested finger positions. So tl dr if I was analyzing this the way I was taught during my jazz perf major, I would say that the G7 is acting as a Secondary Dominant chord. So this is why it has a strong energy to resolve to the F#. In this case the 3rd and 7th for G7 are B and F. Tri-tone substitutions work because if you substitute a dominant 7th chord with another dom 7th a tri-tone away, the 3rd and the 7th (already a tritone interval) just flip. For example, the F minor chord has the chord tones F, Ab, and C.

The notes in any dominant chord that give it it's strong quality of needing-to-resolve are the 3rd and the 7th. These chord tones can also be thought of as the scale degrees related to one minor scale. It will sometimes appear with the Roman numeral notation I or Ia. If youre new to chords, the m stands for minor and the chord is also referred to. The dominant of the dominant, (in this case the 5th note of the F# scale) is C#, and your C#7 resolves strongly to F#7, which in turn resolves strongly to Bmin. The first, third, and fifth notes are F, A, and C, so the minor chord is FAC, and its name is F minor. The Fm chord is made up of three notes F, Ab, and C. The G7 is acting as a tri-tone substitution of C#7, which would be a secondary dominant chord, or a 'five of five'.į#7 is the dominant of Bmin, being the 5th note in the Bmin scale, and having a strong tendency to resolve.

And with that, you should be jamming on F Minor in no time flat. Place your 4th finger on the 1st string/8th fret. Place your 3rd finger on the 5th string/8th fret. Another way to think about it, from a jazz theory perspective instead of The Professors excellent classical theory approach: Place your 1st finger on the 4th string/6th fret.