Banjo Dm7 chord (Sawmill)D minor seventh on the 5-string banjo: 0 2 0 3, and 6 more shapes

Dm7 chord chart for 5-string banjo in Sawmill tuning: 0 2 0 3, open position, with the short 5th string marked
Dm7 (D minor seventh) on the 5-string banjo, Sawmill: 0 2 0 3, 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 2 0 3 (open position)

  1. String 4 (D): open, D
  2. String 3 (G): 2nd fret, index finger, A
  3. String 2 (C): open, C
  4. String 1 (D): 3rd fret, middle finger, F
  5. String 5, the short g: open, G, not in the chord

Sounds: D A C F  ·  Dm7 is D, F, A, C (1 · ♭3 · 5 · ♭7)

The 5th string: the short g adds the 4th over Dm7, a colour rather than a clash.

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 Dm7 shapes

  1. 21gFACD3 2 0 0
    open
  2. 5fr113gDCFA0 5 5 7
    5fr
  3. 7fr41gDFCA0 10 0 7
    7fr
  4. 9fr213gDFAC0 10 9 10
    9fr
  5. 12fr314gDACF0 14 12 15
    12fr
  6. 14fr12gDACF0 14 0 15
    14fr

Other D chords in Sawmill

DDmD7Dm7Dmaj7D6Dsus4Dsus2DdimDaug

Other minor seventh chords

Gm7Am7Dm7Cm7Bm7Em7Fm7B♭m7

Dm7 in other tunings

Open GDouble COpen DC Tuning

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