What notes are in a Gm7 chord?

Gm7 contains four notes: G (root), B♭ (minor third), D (perfect fifth), and F (minor seventh).

What jazz standards use Gm7?

"Girl from Ipanema" (in F major), Mozart's G-minor symphonies (with related harmony), and any tune in F major or B♭ major that needs a iim7 chord. Gm7 is one of the most-played 7th chords in jazz.

How do you play Gm7 on guitar?

Most commonly a 3rd-fret E-minor-shape barre: index across all six strings on fret 3, ring finger on the 5th fret of the 5th string. The closed-position voicing also works at the 10th-fret area as an A-shape.

How is Gm7 different from G7?

Only the third changes. G7 has B natural (major 3rd, dominant); Gm7 has B♭ (minor 3rd). Different chord quality with different harmonic function.

G minor 7 chord — notes, intervals, and practice

G minor 7 (Gm7) — G, B♭, D, F — is G minor with a minor 7th on top. The chord is the iim7 of F major (Gm7 → C7 → Fmaj7) — the cadence in countless F-major jazz tunes including "Girl from Ipanema" (in F). Mozart's G-minor symphonies use Gm-related harmony constantly.

Intervals

The G minor 7 chord stacks two thirds on the root. Each interval and its size in semitones:

G→Bbminor 3rd3 semitones
Bb→Dmajor 3rd4 semitones
D→Fminor 3rd3 semitones

On the keyboard

Each note of the G minor 7 chord highlighted on a piano. Pitch class is what matters — any octave works.

On the guitar

One voicing of the G minor 7 chord on a six-string guitar fretboard.

1G
♭3Bb
5D
♭7F

Common mistakes

Gm7 has B♭ as its third and F natural as its 7th. Reading B♭ as B natural makes Gmaj7 (a completely different chord). On guitar, Gm7 is most often a 3rd-fret E-minor-shape barre or a closed-position three-string voicing.

In context

Gm7 is the iim7 of F major (Gm7 → C7 → Fmaj7) and the vim7 of B♭ major. As the im7 of G minor in modal jazz, the chord serves as a stable tonic. "Girl from Ipanema" in F major passes through Gm7 at every cadence.

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Frequently asked

What notes are in a Gm7 chord?: Gm7 contains four notes: G (root), B♭ (minor third), D (perfect fifth), and F (minor seventh).
What jazz standards use Gm7?: "Girl from Ipanema" (in F major), Mozart's G-minor symphonies (with related harmony), and any tune in F major or B♭ major that needs a iim7 chord. Gm7 is one of the most-played 7th chords in jazz.
How do you play Gm7 on guitar?: Most commonly a 3rd-fret E-minor-shape barre: index across all six strings on fret 3, ring finger on the 5th fret of the 5th string. The closed-position voicing also works at the 10th-fret area as an A-shape.
How is Gm7 different from G7?: Only the third changes. G7 has B natural (major 3rd, dominant); Gm7 has B♭ (minor 3rd). Different chord quality with different harmonic function.