B minor has two sharps and sits in a sweet spot for guitar and voice: dark enough for ballads, high enough to ring. Its chords are Bm, C♯°, D, Em, F♯m, G and A, with the major F♯ and its A♯ as the dominant. D major is the relative major, B major the parallel. A lot of pop-rock and singer-songwriter material lives here, often with a capo on fret 2 using A minor shapes.
The chords of B minor
Seven chords, one on each note of the scale. Songs in B minor often borrow F♯, the major V, for a stronger pull home.
Bm is sounding: B, D and F♯.
B minor
BC♯DEF♯GA
D major
DEF♯GABC♯
Make your own in B minor
The generator, set to B minor. Lock the chords you like, generate the rest, then download it as MIDI.
Chord names with spaces, up to 16.
More in and around B minor
- B minor: scale, chords and key signature
- D major chord progressions, its relative major
- B major, its parallel major: the scale and chords
- Sad chord progressions
- Minor chord progressions
- The Andalusian cadence
- The minor ii–V–i
- Move these chords to another key: the chord transposer
- Which key is your song in? The key finder
Piano sounds by the Salamander Grand Piano (Alexander Holm), CC BY 3.0.
