Banjo Fm7 chord (Sawmill)F minor seventh on the 5-string banjo: 3 1 0 1, and 4 more shapes

Fm7 chord chart for 5-string banjo in Sawmill tuning: 3 1 0 1, open position, with the short 5th string marked
Fm7 (F minor seventh) on the 5-string banjo, Sawmill: 3 1 0 1, 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: 3 1 0 1 (open position)

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

Sounds: F A♭ C E♭  ·  Fm7 is F, A♭, C, E♭ (1 · ♭3 · 5 · ♭7)

The 5th string: the short g rubs against the A♭ 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 Fm7 shapes

  1. 113gE♭A♭CF1 1 0 3
    open
  2. 3fr1314gFCE♭A♭3 5 3 6
    3fr
  3. 5fr2413gA♭E♭FA♭6 8 5 6
    5fr · no 5th
  4. 12fr4213gFA♭CE♭15 13 12 13
    12fr

Other F chords in Sawmill

FFmF7Fm7Fmaj7F6Fsus4Fsus2FdimFaug

Other minor seventh chords

Gm7Am7Dm7Cm7Bm7Em7Fm7B♭m7

Fm7 in other tunings

Open GDouble COpen DC Tuning

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