Six String Guitar · Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

GmG Minor

DRoot

Ftone

Atone

Formula 5 · ♭7 · 2 · Notes D · F · A

How to play it

Gm fingering positions

Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD), low E on the left. Each dot is colour-coded by note — the ringed dot is the root. Numbers below show the fret per string (x = muted).

G Minor guitar chord — Open (x 0 2 2 1 0) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

G Minor guitar chord — M-shape, 5th (x x 7 5 5 5) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

G Minor guitar chord — M-shape, 5th (7 7 7 5 5 5) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

G Minor guitar chord — M-shape, 12th (x 12 14 14 13 12) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

G Minor guitar chord — M-shape, 17th (x x 19 17 17 17) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

G Minor guitar chord — M-shape, 17th (19 19 19 17 17 17) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

G Minor guitar chord — Open (x 0 2 x 1 x) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

G Minor guitar chord — Open (x 0 2 x 1 0) fretboard diagram in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

Read it as tab

Gm guitar tab

The same voicings in tablature — high e on top, low E on the bottom. Each fret number is colour-coded by note; the ringed number is the root, × means don’t play that string.

G Minor guitar tab — Open (x 0 2 2 1 0) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

G Minor guitar tab — M-shape, 5th (x x 7 5 5 5) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

G Minor guitar tab — M-shape, 5th (7 7 7 5 5 5) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

G Minor guitar tab — M-shape, 12th (x 12 14 14 13 12) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

G Minor guitar tab — M-shape, 17th (x x 19 17 17 17) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

G Minor guitar tab — M-shape, 17th (19 19 19 17 17 17) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

G Minor guitar tab — Open (x 0 2 x 1 x) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

G Minor guitar tab — Open (x 0 2 x 1 0) in Drop C Tuning (CGCFAD)

Sound

How Gm sounds

Consonance

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Brightness

DarkBright

Character

Moods & genres

Moods

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Genres

rockpopclassical

Theory

Notes & relationships

NotesD · F · A

Formula (scale degrees)5 · ♭7 · 2

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