Dm7/G chord

JanekLubanski

Advice/suggestions please. I'm trying the chords of Parisienne Walkways. Some lovely chords in it. I'm having trouble playing the Dm7/G. The little chord box diagram suggests 3x0211....bit of a stretch for my short pinkie! Also I don't much like the books voicing of Bm7-5 which suggests x2x231. Thank you

bloodandtears

look here..

https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/gary-moore-parisienne-walkways-tab-s23063t3

granted it's not gospel but given the chords are arpeggios I wouldn't worry about the G in the bass..

It does, however, illustrate there's no easy way out of the Bm7-5 fingering..

bloodandtears

you could also consider barre chords..

7x776x for the Bm7-5 chord... I seem to recall playing arpeggio barre chords for all the chords when I learnt it.

Jimbro66

JanekLubanski said:

Advice/suggestions please. I'm trying the chords of Parisienne Walkways. Some lovely chords in it. I'm having trouble playing the Dm7/G. The little chord box diagram suggests 3x0211....bit of a stretch for my short pinkie! Also I don't much like the books voicing of Bm7-5 which suggests x2x231. Thank you

Why does your pinkie come into play? I would form the chord fretting the first two strings at the first fret using my index finger, the third string fretted at the second fret with my middle finger, fourth string open and my ring finger fretting the sixth string at the third fret whilst also muting the fifth string. The pinkie is left floating (or could mute the fifth string if preferred).

JanekLubanski

Jimbro66 said:

JanekLubanski said:

Advice/suggestions please. I'm trying the chords of Parisienne Walkways. Some lovely chords in it. I'm having trouble playing the Dm7/G. The little chord box diagram suggests 3x0211....bit of a stretch for my short pinkie! Also I don't much like the books voicing of Bm7-5 which suggests x2x231. Thank you

Why does your pinkie come into play? I would form the chord fretting the first two strings at the first fret using my index finger, the third string fretted at the second fret with my middle finger, fourth string open and my ring finger fretting the sixth string at the third fret whilst also muting the fifth string. The pinkie is left floating (or could mute the fifth string if preferred).

Just tried with the ring finger and it works a treat.....dunno why I was attempting with pinkie! You have probably already realized that I am at the lower end of guitar playing proficiency.  Thank you.

Jimbro66

JanekLubanski said:

Jimbro66 said:

JanekLubanski said:

Advice/suggestions please. I'm trying the chords of Parisienne Walkways. Some lovely chords in it. I'm having trouble playing the Dm7/G. The little chord box diagram suggests 3x0211....bit of a stretch for my short pinkie! Also I don't much like the books voicing of Bm7-5 which suggests x2x231. Thank you

Why does your pinkie come into play? I would form the chord fretting the first two strings at the first fret using my index finger, the third string fretted at the second fret with my middle finger, fourth string open and my ring finger fretting the sixth string at the third fret whilst also muting the fifth string. The pinkie is left floating (or could mute the fifth string if preferred).

Just tried with the ring finger and it works a treat.....dunno why I was attempting with pinkie! You have probably already realized that I am at the lower end of guitar playing proficiency.  Thank you.

Glad to help. As regards that slightly awkward voicing of Bm7-5, I used to play Parisienne Walkways in a covers band way back in the '80s so it's a bit of a distant memory but just quickly running through it mentally reminded me that I played that chord with 6th string muted, 5th string 2nd fret, 4th string 3rd fret, 3rd string 2nd fret, 2nd string third fret. That's formed with the index and middle fingers on the 2nd fret notes and the ring and pinkie on the 3rd fret notes. That's quite a comfortable voicing. Then the 1st string can be muted or, if you want to play an arpeggio, you can move your index finger between 5th string 2nd fret and 1st string first fret while holding the rest of the chord. Much easier than it sounds in writing!

We were all at that lower end at one time so just keep at it

sev112

He uses the same in Still Git the blues, and the G bass is quite important in the progression

play the top 3 strings as if a F major chord with the first 2 strings partials barre.  

viz

bloodandtears said:

look here..

https://www.songsterr.com/a/wsa/gary-moore-parisienne-walkways-tab-s23063t3

granted it's not gospel but given the chords are arpeggios I wouldn't worry about the G in the bass..

It does, however, illustrate there's no easy way out of the Bm7-5 fingering..

I just do 7 8 9 10 10 x

smigeon

viz said:

It does, however, illustrate there's no easy way out of the Bm7-5 fingering..

I just do 7 8 9 10 10 x

That's beautiful! I know a few m7b5 voicings, but that one never occurred to me. Can also use it as a G9, of course...

Danny1969

Does Dm with a B in the bass not work, pretty sure that's all I ever played ?

viz

smigeon said:

viz said:

It does, however, illustrate there's no easy way out of the Bm7-5 fingering..

I just do 7 8 9 10 10 x

That's beautiful! I know a few m7b5 voicings, but that one never occurred to me. Can also use it as a G9, of course...

It’s the easiest way out of any 251 in a minor key

the other nice one is 78778x, which is good because it has an equivalent A string version - x23233.