How To Play A Bm Chord on Acoustic Guitar
The Bm chord is one of the first barre chords I show students to play. The other is the F#m barre chord since they both sit on the second fret. A great way to practice building strength for playing barre chords is to practice switching between F#m and Bm over and over again
5 STRING Bm Chord on Guitar
This is the typical Bm chord that you would likely use if you were playing a lot of open chords in the first three frets of the guitar.
The barre occurs at the 2nd fret and you can see that your other 3 fingers are in an ‘Am’ shape.
Most of my students don’t have trouble getting the Bm chord to sound since your first finger only has to press down on two strings. It’s the 6 string version below that gives students a bit more trouble.
6 String BM Chord on Guitar
As you can see from the diagram, this Bm chord requires you to barre a lot of strings with only 1 finger. Often times, students will have trouble getting the bottom two strings (B and e) to ring through.
This is usually caused by not enough pressure on the bottom part of the barre. So focus on squeezing from the bottom of the finger. Remember, you first finger acts like a capo.
A great practice would be to slide between this chord and F#m since they both have the ‘Em’ chord shape to them.
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