# F♯m7, the F♯ minor 7 guitar chord

F♯m7 is the same Em7 grip as Fm7, one fret higher, and the barre gives a little more easily this far from the nut. It is F♯m with the pinky lifted off the D string. Songs in A and E lean on it, where it does the job open Em7 does in G. The D string sounds under the barre alone and is the first note to vanish when the index arches. Listen for it.

F♯m7

## How to play it

- Index finger flattened across the low E string (6th), D string (4th), G string (3rd), B string (2nd) and high E string (1st), 2nd fret.
- Ring finger on the A string (5th), 4th fret.

## Changes to practice

Holding F♯m7 still is the easy part. Songs need you to _arrive_ at it in rhythm, so in Strumhold you practice F♯m7 as changes, alongside the rest of the Barre Minor 7ths set:

- [F♯m7 ↔ Bm7](https://strumhold.com/chords/b-minor-7/) F♯ minor 7 to B minor 7 [Drill](https://strumhold.app/#/drill/pair/B.min7.A~F%23.min7.E)
- [F♯m7 ↔ G♯m7](https://strumhold.com/chords/g-sharp-minor-7/) F♯ minor 7 to G♯ minor 7 [Drill](https://strumhold.app/#/drill/pair/F%23.min7.E~G%23.min7.E)
- [F♯m7 ↔ C♯m7](https://strumhold.com/chords/c-sharp-minor-7/) F♯ minor 7 to C♯ minor 7 [Drill](https://strumhold.app/#/drill/pair/C%23.min7.A~F%23.min7.E)
- [F♯m7 ↔ Fm7](https://strumhold.com/chords/f-minor-7/) F♯ minor 7 to F minor 7 [Drill](https://strumhold.app/#/drill/pair/F%23.min7.E~F.min7.E)
- [F♯m7 ↔ B♭m7](https://strumhold.com/chords/b-flat-minor-7/) F♯ minor 7 to B♭ minor 7 [Drill](https://strumhold.app/#/drill/pair/A%23.min7.A~F%23.min7.E)
- [F♯m7 ↔ E♭m7](https://strumhold.com/chords/e-flat-minor-7/) F♯ minor 7 to E♭ minor 7 [Drill](https://strumhold.app/#/drill/pair/D%23.min7.A~F%23.min7.E)

## Same root, different color

- [F♯m](https://strumhold.com/chords/f-sharp-minor/), F♯ minor
- [F♯](https://strumhold.com/chords/f-sharp-major/), F♯ major
- [F♯7](https://strumhold.com/chords/f-sharp-7/), F♯ dominant 7
- [F♯maj7](https://strumhold.com/chords/f-sharp-major-7/), F♯ 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 F♯m7 in the app](https://strumhold.app/#/drill/pair/B.min7.A~F%23.min7.E)