# Am7, the A minor 7 guitar chord

Am7 is Am with a finger lifted. Softer, jazzier, and very easy under the hand, it turns up in soul and pop wherever Am feels heavy. Keep the low E string out of the strum, and check that the open G rings between your two fingers.

Am7

## How to play it

- Index finger on the B string (2nd), 1st fret.
- Middle finger on the D string (4th), 2nd fret.
- Let the open A string (5th), G string (3rd) and high E string (1st) ring.
- Don't strum the low E string (6th). It stays silent in this shape.

## Changes to practice

Holding Am7 still is the easy part. Songs need you to _arrive_ at it in rhythm, so in Strumhold you practice Am7 as changes, alongside the rest of the Open Minor 7ths set:

- [Am7 ↔ Em7](https://strumhold.com/chords/e-minor-7/) A minor 7 to E minor 7 [Drill](https://strumhold.app/#/drill/pair/A.min7.A~E.min7.E)
- [Am7 ↔ Dm7](https://strumhold.com/chords/d-minor-7/) A minor 7 to D minor 7 [Drill](https://strumhold.app/#/drill/pair/A.min7.A~D.min7.D)
- [Am7 ↔ Gm7](https://strumhold.com/chords/g-minor-7/) A minor 7 to G minor 7 [Drill](https://strumhold.app/#/drill/pair/A.min7.A~G.min7.G)
- [Am7 ↔ Cm7](https://strumhold.com/chords/c-minor-7/) A minor 7 to C minor 7 [Drill](https://strumhold.app/#/drill/pair/A.min7.A~C.min7.C)

## Same root, different color

- [A](https://strumhold.com/chords/a-major/), A major
- [Am](https://strumhold.com/chords/a-minor/), A minor
- [A7](https://strumhold.com/chords/a-7/), A dominant 7
- [Amaj7](https://strumhold.com/chords/a-major-7/), A major 7

## Hear yourself get faster

Strumhold listens to your guitar through your device's mic, a headset, or a line-in from your audio interface. You drill a chord change to a metronome and it scores every single change. Free, no account, works offline.

[Drill Am7 in the app](https://strumhold.app/#/drill/pair/A.min7.A~E.min7.E)