Modal RunsDm7 Chord (Minor 7th)
Minor 7th adds a flat 7th to the minor triad — root, minor 3rd, 5th, flat 7th — softening the minor triad’s edges. The notes of Dm7 are D, F, A, C.
Smoother and more relaxed than plain minor: the backbone of neo-soul, funk vamps, and jazz ii chords in a ii-V-I.
Dm7 voicings on guitar
Every playable, root-in-the-bass grip standard tuning offers, computed from the chord’s own formula — not a fixed shape library.
Vamp on it for thirty seconds before switching to plain minor — the flat 7th is doing more relaxing than you’d expect from one note.
Formula and intervals
R - b3 - 5 - b7 — 4 notes.
Scales that fit Dm7
Every scale below contains all of this chord’s notes — safe territory to improvise in over it.
Also compatible: Minor Pentatonic, Blues, Diminished (HW).