B5 Guitar Chord

A neutral sound from just the root and fifth — without a third, it's neither major nor minor. The foundation of rock, punk and metal music. Typically played with distortion, where full chords would sound "muddy".

Guitar

Strings X–1–3–3–X–X

How to play the B5 chord on guitar

Read the string pattern X–1–3–3–X–X from the low E string to the high E string. Numbers in the pattern are frets; numbers in the colored dots are left-hand fingers. X means a muted string and 0 means an open string.

6th string (low E) Do not play

5th string (A) Fret 1 · index finger

4th string (D) Fret 3 · ring finger

3rd string (G) Fret 3 · little finger

2nd string (B) Do not play

1st string (high E) Do not play