I'm learning and just mastering Bm

Hi sharkin and welcome to the forum, I think the eagles Hotel California is a good one,but it has an f# which you can play without fretting the bass e string.

Welcome to Chordie Sharkin.  You started out well.  There are a lot of us that still can't get Bm without cheating.  Good for you.

Hey Sharkin-
The song I learned Bm on is the round of chords for Pachabel's Canon in D. It goes D-A-Bm-F#m-G-A-D-A. Sometimes By Step (by Rich Mullins) has many Bms also (with no Fs!).
I'd like to mention that the F#m in Canon I only barred the last 3 strings on the 2nd fret with my index finger, and had my last 2 fingers on the 4th fret A and D strings. It's not so hard that way.

Welcome to Chordie, Sharkin ...

Looks like you're going about learning the various chords in a terrific way, by learning songs where they're used. "The Sounds of Silence" by Simon & Garfunkel is normally written in Dm, but if you use the Chordie transposer to take it down 3 semitones, it comes out in a more comfortable singing key ... OR ... use a capo to key it back up. A nicely paced song also, to allow you time for transitions. You can also play "High Hopes" by Pink Floyd in the same way.

Sharkin,it is much better too learn how too do the b and f chords as most of the populer tunes have one or the other,so you would limit alot of the tunes you want too play. It took me awile with my short fingers,you may find other ways too do them like more wrist, arm, end body bending too do them.

Hey THANKS FOR THE TIP I have been working on this song in standard, but after seeing this, I looked at it and im going to work it this way tonight!

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Comfortably Numb is a good Bm song to learn.

I teach a few kids guitar, and the best exercise I know of is to learn Bm and F# together. Which is why I start with Am and E. I get them to learn those two chords smoothly with normal fingering. Then I get them to play Am with fingers 2,3,4 (leaving finger 1 for the  barre). Same with E. Then I get them to play the Am - E - Am progression with the new fingerings. Only when they can do that do I get them to play Bm and F#. All they need to do is hold the barre finger in place and practice moving between the Am and E shapes as before.

A song like Hotel California (as noted above) is good for this. So also are blues songs in Bm such as TheThrill is Gone by B B King.

All the best!

She's Electric by Oasis has G# and C#m which is just two frets up from Bm. That Am/Bm shape will become one of your most useful chords. Along with Em because the only other minor chord you can get in you first position is Dm which is a pig to bar. Of course once you've mastered Bm, F will be easy enough. When you see any minor chord in a song. It's going to come from one of those chord shapes.

Hi

I am also new here and this was the first post that caught my eye because Bm and F give me the most trouble as well. I have been playing a few months and I can hit them when I do it slowly but when playing it is about a 20-30%.

Is there actually a cheat to the Bm chord? or even the B chord?

-Jim