Banjo Bm7 chord (Sawmill)B minor seventh on the 5-string banjo: 0 4 6 7, and 3 more shapes

Bm7 chord chart for 5-string banjo in Sawmill tuning: 0 4 6 7, from the 4th fret, with the short 5th string marked
Bm7 (B minor seventh) on the 5-string banjo, Sawmill: 0 4 6 7, string 4 to string 1. Fingers are numbered on the dots; copper marks the root; the green ring on the left is the 5th string, solid when it’s in the chord.

Frets, string 4 to string 1: 0 4 6 7 (from the 4th fret)

  1. String 4 (D): open, D
  2. String 3 (G): 4th fret, index finger, B
  3. String 2 (C): 6th fret, ring finger, F♯
  4. String 1 (D): 7th fret, little finger, A
  5. String 5, the short g: open, G, not in the chord

Sounds: D B F♯ A  ·  Bm7 is B, D, F♯, A (1 · ♭3 · 5 · ♭7)

The 5th string: the short g rubs against the F♯ in this shape, a semitone away: some players let it ring, some skip it.

Sawmill tuning: gDGCD, the short 5th string first, then strings 4 to 1.

Hear it in the app ›

The link can’t set the tuning: the app starts in open G. Choose Sawmill once in its Settings and it remembers.

More Bm7 shapes

  1. 6fr4213gBDF♯A9 7 6 7
    6fr
  2. 9fr131gBF♯AD9 11 9 0
    9fr
  3. 11fr2413gDABD12 14 11 12
    11fr · no 5th

Other B chords in Sawmill

BBmB7Bm7Bmaj7B6Bsus4Bsus2Bdim

Other minor seventh chords

Gm7Am7Dm7Cm7Bm7Em7Fm7B♭m7

Bm7 in other tunings

Open GDouble COpen DC Tuning

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