Rock in B minor — arpeggios

Level 4 rock

As with F elsewhere in the catalogue, picking Bm note by note immediately exposes uneven pressure across its four fingers, where a fast strum would hide it. G, D and A, being open, don't have this problem.

Tips

Pick Bm slowly, string by string, listening for whether each one rings fully before moving to the next.
If a string on Bm sounds muted, first adjust the barre's angle rather than the overall pressure of all four fingers.
Once Bm is clean in a slow arpeggio, the catalogue's strummed versions of this same grid will get easier.

Chord progression — Bm

Bar 1 Bm i
Bar 2 G VI
Bar 3 D III
Bar 4 A VII

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