Chord Of The Week 19/4/15 - F#mmaj7

bigjon

Including his one for completeness only - it's so difficult to play in open position, in practice I think I'd always play a closed-position version.

Formula is 1 b3 5 7, so in F# we have the notes F# A C# E#, which is xx4221. The open string available to help us form our open-position F#mmaj7 chord is the 1st string A, which needs a thumb-over-the-fretboard approach and careful placement of the little finger to avoid accidentally muting - 

F#mmaj7 - 203221 (thumb on 6th string)

or

F#mmaj7 - 204221 (thumb on 6th string)

And that's it! Can't think of any useable variations which use that open A-string. . .

bigjon

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