Forum: music.stackexchange.com
Tags: <guitar><fingering>
Title: How to finger Dm -> Dm9?
Question: I'm playing a song that goes Dm to Dm9. Moving from either open Dm or fifth-string bar Dm to the pictured Dm9 shape feel pretty awkward. Is there a better shape or fingering? I imagine Dm->Dm9 in any key can't be too uncommon.

Answers:
sents: text: It's towards the dusty end, but barre 10th fret, and finger 12th
text: fret 5th string, and 12th fret top string gives the 9th part of the chord.
text: So Dm barre there,(with 12th fret 4th string if you want
text: , otherwise it's Dm7) and Dm9 follows easily.
text: EDIT: an alternative - similar to the chord window in the question, but maybe not easy
text: fo you, would be very much like D9 where evrything is in 5th fret, except 4th fret 4th string (quite an easy chord to finger), but move the 4th string from F&sharp; down to 3rd fret, giving the m3 of F&natural;.
text: But getting to it from where?
text: Maybe 5th fret barre Am shape?
answer_details: author: music.stackexchange.com/users/2808/Tim
score: 3
sents: text: Do you really need the 7th?
text: If not, could you use this inverted m9(no 7)
text: (or m add 9): or even this sus2:
answer_details: author: music.stackexchange.com/users/18896/topo Reinstate Monica
score: 3
sents: text: Use the open E for the 9th.
text: Dm : x5776x Dm9 :
text: x5x560 (leave out the 5th)
text: How about- Dm11 : x57060
text: It's a nice idea to combine one or two open strings with stuff.
text: Here's an etude x57060 8x7060 7x7760 6x7760 6x5760 5x5760 5x5660 3x3330 3x2330 1x2230 x13230 3x2330 x02330 x08680 x57460
answer_details: author: music.stackexchange.com/users/51766/piiperi Reinstate Monica
score: 3
sents: text: That depends on a few factors.
text: Like whether or not you want all notes in the voicing, whether the style of the song is folk or rock versus Jazz.
text: I personally have no problems with the fingering (x, 5, 7, 7, 6, x) to
text: (x, 5, 3, 5, 5, x) which would require a shift back.
text: Another option is.
text: (x, x, 3, 2, 3, x)
text: or (x, 0, 3, 2, 3, x) to (x, 5, 3, 5, 5, x)
text: You could even use (x, 5, 3, 2, 3, x) if you can grab it.
text: Lastly if you want an open string tone and feel.
text: (x, x, 0, 2, 3, 1) to
text: (x, x, 3, 2, 3, 0) or (x, x, 0, 2, 3, 0)
text: if you don't mind the ambiguity of not having the 3rd.
text: An more obtuse voicing might be, (x, x, 0, 2, 3, 1) to (x, x, 2, 2, 3, 1)
answer_details: author: music.stackexchange.com/users/50691/ggcg
score: 3
sents: text: It really depends on the style you are playing, e.g. full strums vs fingerpicking.
text: On top of existing answers, you can play Dm7 either ways: x5356x , with the minor 3rd on top; x5353x , with the root on top .
text: You bar on the 3rd fret with the 1st finger, so you are basically playing a G7sus4 on 3rd position.
text: Drive by Incubus makes exactly that
text: (but in Em) by the way!
answer_details: author: music.stackexchange.com/users/35439/moonwave99
score: 2
sents: text: you also got the strechy voicing of Dm-add9 Dmadd9x57975to Dmx57755 or Dm9x5355x
text: toDm/fx877710x way up:Dm9/cxx10101012to Dm/cxx10101010
answer_details: author: music.stackexchange.com/users/68484/Favio Villaseñor
score: 1

Summary of the answers:
It really depends on the style you are playing, e.g. full strums vs fingerpicking, but barre 10th fret, and finger 12th fret 5th string, and 12th fret top string gives the 9th part of the chord. So Dm barre there,and Dm9 follows easily.
It really depends on the style you are playing