F# Minor guitar chord
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About F#m — root position
F#m is F#, A and C# — F# with the third lowered a semitone.
It sounds darker than a major triad, and just as settled. The i of a minor key, and the vi, ii or iii of a major one.
Tonic — minor chords rest as readily as major ones.
F#m notes and formula
| F# | A | C# |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | ♭3 | 5 |
Also written F#min, F#- or F# minor. The same chord either way; which spelling you meet depends on who wrote the chart.
How to play F#m
F#m in root position puts F# in the bass, which is the chord as it is spelled: the note it is named after underneath everything else.
6 of F#m’s 8 common shapes do this:244222xx4222xx4675x9767xx-9-11-11-10-914-12-11-11-x-14
All 8 common shapes as fret numbers, lowest string first. Hover or tap one to see it drawn.
- 244222, 2nd fret, F#, root position, top note F#, barred
- xx4222, 2nd fret, F#, root position, top note F#, barred
- xx4675, 4th fret, F#, root position, top note A, all fretted
- xx7675, 5th fret, A, 1st inversion, top note A, all fretted
- x9767x, 6th fret, F#, root position, top note F#, all fretted
- x-9-11-11-10-9, 9th fret, F#, root position, top note C#, all fretted
- x-12-11-11-10-x, 10th fret, A, 1st inversion, top note A, all fretted
- 14-12-11-11-x-14, 11th fret, F#, root position, top note F#, all fretted
How to use F#m
How you get to it. The turn that lands on F#m is G#m7♭5 to C#7♭9: the ii and the V of F# minor, which is where a minor tonic is usually arrived at rather than simply begun on.
In which keys. Every note of F#m belongs to C# minor (the iv), D major (the iii), E major (the ii), F# minor (the i), A major (the vi) and B minor (the v).
What to play over F#m
Every note of F#m is in F# minor pentatonic, F# blues, F# dorian, F# natural minor and F# phrygian.
Chords near F#m
Change one note of F#m and you have F# (the minor third becomes the major third), F#dim (the fifth becomes the flat fifth), F#sus2 (the minor third becomes the second), F#sus4 (the minor third becomes the fourth), F#m6 (add the sixth) or F#m7 (add the flat seventh).
F#m is a minor chord — root, minor third, fifth. Minor chords on every root.
The common shapes and the derived voicings come from different places, and both are explained in how this site is built.