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Question: Bm power chord!? Guitar question!?
I was wondering if someone could tell me how to play a Bm power chord, with the fifth and sixth string!?

Is it A string, 6th fret, + E string, 7th fret!? Is that a Bm!?

(Im currently learning guitar, and with this new song, I forgot where the Bm is placed!.)

I assume the sixth string on B (7th fret) would mean thats the root note!? Is there something that determines the other note, to what makes it a minor!?


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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:
Bm barre chord is what you are thinking of, I think!. There are two shapes of Barre chords: E shape and A shape!. Bm E shape is 1st finger across the 7th fret; 3rd finger on the 9th fret of the A string; 4th finger on the 9th fret of the D string!.
For A shape: 1st finger across the second fret; 3rd finger on the 4th fret of the D string; 4th finger on the 4th fret of the G string; 2nd finger on the 3rd fret of the B string!.
There is no such thing as a Bm power chord!. Power chords don't have major or minor tonalities!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Follow Descarte's advice - until you have a better grounding in music theory and know the notes on the fretboard, using a chord-finder or chord book is a good way to start to build up a chord vocabulary!.
This is the same idea, but i prefer this one (it's easy and convenient):
http://www!.all-guitar-chords!.com/

Let me point out though, that when people say "power chord", they're typically talking about a reduced barre chord that only uses the top two or three strings!. It contains only the root and the 5th note, usually played as the root + the perfect 5th + the root again at a higher octave!.

A power chord has no major/minor/7th/etc tonality!. It's often also referred to as a "fifth chord" (eg, D5, B5, etc)!. In other words, the minor 3rd (3 semitones higher than the root) note that makes a minor chord sound the way it does, is NOT included in any power chords!.

So technically speaking, you wouldn't really call any variant of a B minor chord a "power chord," even if you're only playing 3 strings!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

Try going here and inputing your question/data!. It should help you find which chord you're looking for whether it's minor, major or any other!.

http://www!.power-chord!.com/gaff/mapper/Www@QuestionHome@Com

here if you can read a tab
a power chord is always named after its root
6 string :
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----8
----8
----6

5 string

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---3
---3
---1
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