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What is B minor chord notes?

The notes in a B minor chord are B, D, and F#, as shown in Example 1. like C#m and F#m, Bm is typically played as a barre chord.

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BY KATE KOENIG

Welcome to the latest installment of Chord by Chord, a series designed to build your understanding of harmony and the fretboard. In the last lesson, I taught you the C#m chord, and this time I’ll show you another new minor type, Bm. This article is free to read, but it isn't free to create! Make a pledge to support our work (and get special perks in return.) LEARN MORE...

The Work

As I’ve explained in previous lessons, a minor triad has three notes—the root, the minor third, and the fifth. The notes in a B minor chord are B, D, and F#, as shown in Example 1. like C#m and F#m, Bm is typically played as a barre chord. Example 2a shows the lowest one on the fretboard, in second position, and Example 2b is a three-note voicing derived from it. These chords are moveable—shift any of them up two frets, for instance, to get a C#m chord. Example 3a shows a B minor barre chord in seventh position. Remember that if you want, you can play this voicing using just the top or bottom four strings. As shown in Example 3b, you can also use a different fingering, with your thumb fretting the lowest note and the fifth string eliminated. Example 4 shows a four-note voicing higher up the neck, with the minor third (D) as the lowest note. Given that it’s impractical to play barre chords around the 14th fret on most acoustic guitars, Example 5 depicts a three-note voicing in that position.

The Result

Now you should know a variety of ways to play Bm on the fretboard. One song that uses this chord is “Collapse the Light Into Earth” by Porcupine Tree. Practice these and the previous few minor chords until next lesson, when the focus shifts back to chord progressions.

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Ctrl + Alt + F11 sort of puts the GUI to sleep, and puts you into a virtual terminal mode, something like the old fashion ttys. Once in this mode you can choose between 6 different tty input screens. Each acting like it is an old-fashion tty. The different ttys can be chosen with Alt + F1 up to Alt + F7 .

This question already has answers here: What does "Ctrl + Alt + F12" do? (7 answers) Closed 9 years ago . I was just happily typing away, trying out some Android development on my Ubuntu machine. I pressed Ctrl + Alt + F11 instead of Ctrl + F11 to run the program in Eclipse. This made the screen go blank with a white flashing cursor and it stayed like that for a while, so I pressed Ctrl + Alt + F4 to get to a terminal I could use and remembered seeing somewhere startx to start the GUI again, so I tried that and had something I have also been trying commands like unity , unity start and unity restart , but they all seem to run, but I never get my GUI back. The fact that it only happened to my user account is strange. If I use guest I can access the GUI, but if I try and log in to my account the screen goes black for a few seconds and then sends be back to the log in screen. I have tried installing the Xubuntu desktop over the top of it, but it does the same thing with that desktop as well. My knowledge of Linux is starting to get stretched at this point now.

What may have happened and how do I put it right? Maybe it's a user setting or something I could change?

Also could anyone tell me what Ctrl + Alt and F11 does?

I'm using the latest version of Ubuntu and ran the latest updates today as well.

When running startx , I get an error saying:

Fatal Server error@ server is already active for display 0 if this server is no longer running, remove /temp/.x0-lock and start again

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