Dm Chord
The Dm is a minor chord that sounds darker, more melancholic, and expressive. Minor chords add emotional depth and drama. The lowered third gives them their characteristic bittersweet quality, making them essential for blues, rock, and emotional ballads.
Open Position
Chord Diagrams
Open Position
No barre required
Barre Shape, Fret 5
Uses a barre chord technique
How to Play Dm
Follow these steps for the open position fingering:
| # | String | Instruction | Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Low E (6th string) | ✕Mute, do not play this string | – |
| 2 | A (5th string) | ✕Mute, do not play this string | – |
| 3 | D (4th string) | ○Open, play the open string | A |
| 4 | G (3rd string) | ●Fret 2 with your middle finger | D |
| 5 | B (2nd string) | ●Fret 3 with your ring finger | F |
| 6 | High E (1st string) | ●Fret 1 with your index finger | A |
○ = Open string (no fingers needed)
✕ = Muted string (don't play)
● = Press your finger down firmly just behind the fret
Notes in Dm
The Dm chord is built from 3 distinct notes, each serving a harmonic role:
Read the deep-dive guide for Dm
Songs Using Dm
These songs from our play-along library feature the Dm chord:
Layla (Unplugged)
Eric Clapton
Shaboozey - A Bar Song (Tipsy)
Shaboozey
Sabrina Carpenter – Espresso
Latin City
Easy On Me
Adele
Ed Sheeran - Old Phone (Lyric Video)
Ed Sheeran
Abhi Mujh Mein Kahin
Sonu Nigam
Stand By Me
Ben E. King
seasons
wave to earth
Here Comes the Sun
The Beatles
Up Around the Bend - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Unknown
Dasha - Austin
BagOnly
Mitski - Where's My Phone?
Mitski
Somewhere Over the Rainbow
Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
ZLATA OGNEVICH
Zlata Ognevich
With or Without You
U2
Hotel California
Eagles
Remember
Becky Hill
I'm Yours
Jason Mraz
ROSÉ & Bruno Mars - APT.
ROSÉ
abc (nicer)
GAYLE
Better Together
Jack Johnson
Yesterday
The Beatles
Burning Pile
Mother Mother
Chappell Roan - HOT TO GO!
Unknown
Dominic Fike - Babydoll
Vibe Music
Sultans of Swing
Dire Straits
Hallelujah
Leonard Cohen
Redemption Song
Bob Marley
Dominic Fike - White Keys
Ethereal Music
The Who - Baba O'riley
Zumie94
Mary Jane's Last Dance
Tom Petty
You Are My Sunshine
Jimmie Davis
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Miluzie
Mitski - My Love Mine All Mine
Mitski
Kabira
Unknown
Training Season
Dua Lipa
Love Me Do
The Beatles
Bad Moon Rising
Creedence Clearwater Revival
Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye - Steam - 1969
74sodapop
Tyla - SHE DID IT AGAIN ft. Zara Larsson
Tyla
Queens of the Stone Age - No one Knows
0foofighter0
What I Got
Sublime
Dust in the Wind
Kansas
LUNCH
Billie Eilish
Don't Fear the Reaper- Blue Öyster Cult
SpiritWriterSong
The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black
ABKCO
The A Team
Ed Sheeran
Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please
Lost Panda
Eagles - Hotel California (Live 1977)
Eagles
Derek and the Dominos - Layla
TacoBender79
juju - Wasted Summers
jujumusic
Buffalo Soldier
Bob Marley
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
acdc
Riptide
Vance Joy
Tere Bin
Atif Aslam
House of the Rising Sun
The Animals
Dil Hai Na
Aditya Rikhari
Dua Lipa - Dance The Night
7clouds
Noah Kahan - Call Your Mom
NoahKahan
Lut Gaye
Jubin Nautiyal
Crying City - Urn
Chill Only
Teri Mitti
B Praak
Sum41-Fat Lip
mreddy100
KATSEYE - Touch
Unknown
sombr - undressed
sombr
Blackbird
The Beatles
Teri Aankhon Mein
Darshan Raval
Safar
Arijit Singh
Motley Crue - Wild Side with Lyrics
Unknown
Noah Kahan, Hozier - Northern Attitude (Lyric Video)
NoahKahan
Fast Car
Tracy Chapman
Mr. Jones
Counting Crows
Ae Watan
Arijit Singh
James Arthur - Train Wreck
Lazy Fox
broken
lovelytheband
Alphaville - Forever Young
Pizza Music
Landslide
Fleetwood Mac
Kaun Tujhe
Palak Muchhal
CHRYSTAL - The Days (Notion Remix)
CHRYSTAL
Harry Styles - Aperture
HarryStyles
Billy Squier - The Stroke
Unknown
Galliyan
Ankit Tiwari
Chappell Roan - Good Luck, Babe!
ChappellRoan
Sweet Home Alabama
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Soch Na Sake
Arijit Singh
Tyla, Sean Paul - PUSH 2 START (REMIX - Official Music Video)
Tyla
Olivia Dean - A Couple Minutes (Lyric Video)
Olivia Dean
Reality Club
REALITY CLUB
LISA - NEW WOMAN feat. Rosalía
Unknown
Teri Deewani
Kailash Kher
Play On
Unknown
Made You Look
Meghan Trainor
Lady Gaga - Disease
LadyGaga
Stairway to Heaven
Led Zeppelin
Kun Faya Kun
A.R. Rahman
Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the middle with you
Unknown
Darin feat. Eloise - Falling In love (Music Video)
Unknown
Wallows – Calling After Me
Wallows
Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen
The Scientist
Coldplay
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Unknown
Tyla - PUSH 2 START
Unknown
Under the Bridge
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Billie Eilish - BIRDS OF A FEATHER
BillieEilish
Dil Diyan Gallan
Atif Aslam
vampire
Olivia Rodrigo
Californication
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Zaroorat
Mustafa Zahid
Best Day Of My Life (Acoustic)
American Authors
The Weeknd, Playboi Carti - Timeless
Unknown
Welcome to the Black Parade
My Chemical Romance
Alex Warren - Eternity
Unknown
Hozier - Too Sweet
Hozier
21 Guns
Green Day
Rock That Body - The Black Eyed Peas
Pizza Music
Flowers
Miley Cyrus
We Are Young (feat. Janelle Monáe)
Fun.
Ariana Grande - we can't be friends (wait for your love)
ArianaGrande
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
CCR
Luke Combs - When It Rains It Pours
LukeCombs
Aerosmith Walk This Way
Aerosmith
I Thought I Saw Your Face Today - She And Him
Cassiopeia
Ram Jam - Black Betty
Unknown
Mitski - Once More to See You
Mitski
Could you Be Loved
Bob Marley
Let It Be
The Beatles
"Your Idol" | Official Song Clip | KPop Demon Hunters | Sony Animation
Sony Pictures Animation
Nain Matakka
Dhee, Diljit Dosanjh, Thaman S, Irshad Kamil
Don McLean- American Pie
Unknown
Alice Cooper - I'm Eighteen
Unknown
Espresso
Sabrina Carpenter
Noah Kahan - Stick Season (Lyric Video)
NoahKahan
The Offspring - Staring at the Sun
0ffspring0
Sienna Spiro - Die On This Hill
InvertOG
Judas Priest - Living After Midnight
JudasPriest
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
DeepPurple
APT.
ROSÉ
Dreams (2004 Remaster)
Fleetwood Mac
Mere Rashke Qamar
Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan
AC/DC - Highway to Hell
Stephen McElvain
Taylor Swift - The Fate of Ophelia
LatinHype
Beautiful Things
Benson Boone
Gerua
Arijit Singh
Channa Mereya
Arijit Singh
Eloise
Unknown
Enna Sona
Arijit Singh
Slow Ride- Foghat (Short Version)
soccerbabe2545
HOT TO GO!
Chappell Roan
One way or another
Blondie
Imagine Dragons - Demons
ImagineDragons
Teenage Dirtbag (With Lyrics) - Wheatus
MovieContributer
Is This Love? - Bob Marley
Bob Marley
Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress-The Hollies
Unknown
Life is a Highway
Rascal Flatts
Until I Found You
Stephen Sanchez
Just the Way You Are
Bruno Mars
I Write Sins Not Tragedies
Panic! At The Disco
Let Her Go
Passenger
Sunday Morning
Maroon 5
Stuck In The Middle
Tai Verdes
Count on Me
Bruno Mars
How It’s Done
HUNTR/X
Gives You Hell
The All-American Rejects
Home
Phillip Phillips
Me And My Broken Heart
push baby
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Lookin' Out My Back Door
CCR
Bruno Mars - Risk It All
Unknown
Stereo Hearts (feat. Adam Levine)
Gym Class Heroes
4 Non Blondes - What's Up
4NonBlondes
Bubbly
Colbie Caillat
I Ain't Worried
OneRepublic
Preet Re
Unknown
Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
TedNugent
Audioslave - Like a Stone
Audioslave
Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Refugee
TomPetty
Rush - Xanadu
Rush
The Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
ABKCO
Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
Led Zeppelin
Guns N' Roses - November Rain
GunsNRoses
Bad Company - Can't Get Enough
Unknown
Heart - "Barracuda" (1977)
Heart
Aerosmith - Dream On
Aerosmith
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
Phil Collins
Austin (Boots Stop Workin')
Dasha
Stargazing
Myles Smith
Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
BonJovi
Houdini
Dua Lipa
The Offspring - Why Don't you get a job? Lyrics
YoSabina
5. Elvin Bishop - Fooled Around and Fell in Love
Joel Gustafsson
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Free Bird
Unknown
Van Halen - Jump
Van Halen
Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
OzWho
Eyes Closed
Ed Sheeran
Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal Lyrics
MJKiingofPop
I Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore
Solo Sounds
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (With Lyrics + HQ Sound)
TheJukeboxRock
Mötley Crüe - Girls,Girls,Girls
Unknown
Hell Yeah - Rev Theory
Rev Theory
The Offspring
YoSabina
Unholy
Sam Smith
Before You Go
Lewis Capaldi
Sweet Melody
Little Mix
Physical
Dua Lipa
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
Unknown
Zara Larsson - Pretty Ugly
ZaraLarssonMusic
Don Toliver - Lose My Mind (feat. Doja Cat)
Don Toliver
Kendrick Lamar, SZA - All The Stars
Unknown
Sam Barber - Indigo (feat. Avery Anna) (Lyric Video)
Sam Barber
Tate McRae - Sports car
TateMcRae
Kendrick Lamar - luther
Kendrick Lamar
Bruno Mars - I Just Might
Bruno Mars
SZA - Kill Bill
SZA
Billie Eilish - LUNCH
Unknown
Charli xcx - party 4 u
Charli xcx
W Sound 05 "LA PLENA" - Beéle, Westcol, Ovy On The Drums
W Sound
Laufey - Madwoman
Laufey
Zach Bryan - I Remember Everything (feat. Kacey Musgraves)
Zach Bryan
Zach Bryan - Something In The Orange
Zach Bryan
Zara Larsson - Midnight Sun
Unknown
"How It's Done" Official Lyric Video
Unknown
BTS (방탄소년단) ‘SWIM’ Official MV
Unknown
Taylor Swift - Opalite (Lyric Video)
Unknown
Anyma, LISA - Bad Angel
Anyma
Tyla x Wizkid - DYNAMITE
Tyla
Lil Tecca - Dark Thoughts
Lil Tecca
Chappell Roan - The Subway
ChappellRoan
Bon Jovi - One Wild Night(album version)
Unknown
KATSEYE (캣츠아이) "PINKY UP" Official MV
HYBE LABELS
Doechii - Anxiety (Visualizer)
Iamdoechii
Bebe Rexha & Faithless - New Religion
Bebe Rexha
Kendrick Lamar - tv off
Kendrick Lamar
Sabrina Carpenter - Please Please Please (Lyric Video)
Sabrina Carpenter
ZZ Top Sharp Dressed Man
Unknown
Kendrick Lamar - Not Like Us
KendrickLamar
Doechii - DENIAL IS A RIVER
Unknown
Styx-Renegade Lyrics
RockinBassPlayer3
Headstones - Tweeter and the Monkey Man
blind51de
Central Cee & 21 Savage - GBP
Lyrical Lemonade
Shocking Blue - Venus (Video)
Unknown
Kansas - Dust in the wind 1977
Magnus Schult
I will survive - Gloria Gaynor
70sand80s4u
Luke Combs - Beautiful Crazy
LukeCombs
BL3SS x CamrinWatsin - Kisses ft. bbyclose
BL3SS
Luke Combs - Where the Wild Things Are
LukeCombs
Benson Boone - Beautiful Things
Benson Boone
Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
Unknown
Myles Smith - Stargazing (Lyric Video)
Unknown
Post Malone - I Had Some Help (feat. Morgan Wallen)
PostMalone
AC/DC - Back In Black
acdc
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
ShawnxXxMichaels
BLACKPINK '뛰어(JUMP)' (Color Coded Lyrics)
Unknown
Iktara
Kavita Seth
Alice Cooper - Poison
AliceCooper
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
remhq
Tu Jaane Na
Atif Aslam
Leaving on a Jet Plane
John Denver
Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
onlythepianoplayer
Sign of the Gypsy Queen
April Wine
Rupert Holmes - (Escape) The Pina Colada Song
Unknown
Spirit In The Sky Norman Greenbaum
worldslover234
The Jackson 5 - ABC
ChloeOliver15
Central Cee & Dave - Sprinter
Vibe Music
High Hopes
Panic! At The Disco
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Fortunate Son
masterofacdcsuckaS
Ravyn Lenae - Love Me Not
R&BHype
SZA
BangersOnly
Ariana Grande - twilight zone (lyric visualizer)
ArianaGrande
Isabel LaRosa - favorite
NewMelody
Disco Lines & Tinashe - No Broke Boys
Unknown
SZA - Snooze
Unknown
Lady Gaga - The Dead Dance
Vibe Music
Saja Boys - Your Idol KPop Demon Hunters
Unknown
Justin Bieber - Yukon
Lost Panda
Sabrina Carpenter - Tears
TrendingTracks
Alexia
Unknown
Lola Young - Messy
Vibe Music
Kendrick Lamar - luther ft. SZA
Unknown
Justin Bieber - Beauty And A Beat ft. Nicki Minaj
Unknown
ROSÉ & Bruno Mars - APT.
Vibe Music
Olivia Dean - Man I Need
Unknown
Doechii - Anxiety
Vibe Music
Ariana Grande - We Can’t Be Friends
Lost Panda
Man I Need - Olivia Dean
Unknown
Zara Larsson - Lush Life
Dan Music
Huntrix
Unknown
Cody Simpson - Baby Blue
Cody Simpson
Taylor Swift - Opalite
Unknown
Porter Block - Gi
Unknown
Big Thief - Vampire Empire (Lyric Video)
Big Thief
Come As You Are
Nirvana
Djo - End Of Beginning
Unknown
Comfortably Numb
Pink Floyd
Pete Yorn
Pete Yorn
beabadoobee, Laufey - A Night To Remember
beabadoobee
She & Him - I Thought I Saw Your Face Today
Unknown
CG5 - GRIMACE (Original Song)
CG5
Mitski - I Bet on Losing Dogs
Mitski
Wrecking Ball
Mother Mother
Saiyaara Reprise - Female | Ahaan, Aneet | Tanishk, Faheem, Arslan | Shreya | Irshad
YRF
Chappell Roan - Red Wine Supernova (Magician's Cut)
ChappellRoan
Meet Me in the Woods
Lord Huron
Bekhayali
Unknown
Glass Animals - Take A Slice (Fan Lyric Video)
GlassAnimals
Jeena Jeena
Atif Aslam
O Mere Dil Ke Chain
Kishore Kumar
Kho Gaye Hum Kahan
Jasleen Royal
Riha
Anuv Jain
Roxanne
The Police
Ranjha
B Praak
Tere Bina Full Video - A. R. Rahman | Guru | Aishwarya Rai | Abhishek Bachchan
Sony Music India
Bulleya
Amit Mishra
Laal Ishq
Arijit Singh
Woh Ladki Jo
Unknown
Zara Zara
Bombay Jayashri
Hawa Banke
Darshan Raval
Chahun Main Ya Naa
Arijit Singh
Mann Bharrya
B Praak
Main Hoon Hero Tera
Armaan Malik
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