What is a Bm chord with a G in it?
I am writing a song with G > Bm > Em as the main chord progression but I found a lot of nice fingerings on the guitar for the Bm chord with an added G in it. Does this make the chord a B minor 6 chord? Or does it change the chord into something else?
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It could be
G - B - D - F# ( G + Bm) which is the Gmaj7 chord // G can be something else besides the bass note, and then it would be a Gmaj7 chord in some inversion. With B as the bass note it would be Gmaj7 in first inversion.
Something else that is really common in harmony, that can easily be done in your chord progression is to play the G chord, then the Bm chord with the G held from the previous chord as suspension that will be later be resolved to a chord note (F# for instance).
Also, since the note G is present both in the first and last chords of your progression (G and Em respectively), it's not uncommon to hold it for the middle chord as well.
Since the first chord is already a G, I think I would probably just call it Gmaj7 which is G B D F#.
If the added G is in the bass, you could also just call it a Bm chord over a G in the bass, which would be notated like this: Bm/G
A Bm6 chord would be B - D - F# - G# instead of G natural.
Depending on how this is voiced, this F♯ might be better understood not as a chord tone but as a passing tone from the G in the first chord to the E in the last chord.
For example:
Some musicians have a habit of making a chord out of every vertical stacking of pitches. But sometimes (perhaps most of the time?) there's a melodic explanation that is much more intuitive and that aligns with the flow of the music much better.
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