Harmony Lab · B Minor / D Major · The Renegade Key

Fusion chords,
B minor ecosystem

The same five progressions — now transposed into B minor and its relative major D, so they slot straight into Renegade and your whole Bm practice library.

Read this first

Same fixes, your key

Nothing about the approach changes — drop the root, keep the 3rd and 7th, colour with 9 · 11 · 13, voice it on the top strings. All that's moved is the home base: everything now lives in B minor and its relative major, D major (identical key signature — two sharps). That means every chord here is diatonic to Renegade and shares notes with your bend masterclass, sequences and Landau files.

One thing worth knowing: these voicings climb the neck. Several sit up at the 7th–9th fret, so the diagrams below show a position marker (e.g. "7fr") instead of always starting at the nut. The dot pattern is what matters — slide it to the labelled fret.

Home: B minor Relative major: D major Key sig: F# & C# Modal centre: B Dorian
The Five · "Nfr" = play at that fret · ✕ = mute · ○ = open

Progressions in B minor

The takeaway

Five shapes, your tunes

Same movable rootless shapes as before — just landed in the B minor world. Learn these and you can comp through Renegade and most fusion tunes by sliding them around.

maj9The home chord — here it's Dmaj9, the relative major. Bright and resolved. Built from 3 · 5 · 7 · 9.
m9The workhorse — Bm9, Em9, C#m9 all use it. Warm and modern. Built from b3 · 5 · b7 · 9. Your i and ii chords.
13The dominant — A13, the V of D. Tense, wants to resolve. Built from 3 · b7 · 9 · 13.
9#11The spice — Eb9#11, the backdoor chord. A dominant with a raised 11th: the most "fusion" sound there is.
i-lineThe moving inner voice — hold Bm, walk one note down: B → A# → A → G#. Static chord, living harmony.
How to practise

Get them under the hand

1One shape at a time. Start with the m9 shape — it powers three of the five progressions. Find it, hold it, name the notes.
2Mind the position marker. "7fr" means the top of the grid is the 7th fret. Same dot pattern, higher up the neck.
3Play with the MIDI. Loop fusion_chords_bminor.mid — the bass plays the roots you dropped, so the harmony locks in.
4Watch the top note. Smooth comping = the highest note stepping gently between chords. Listen for it, aim for it.
5Solo over your own comping. Record a progression, then improvise over it with the Landau phrasing exercises. Same key — it all connects.
Hear it · play over it

Your backing file

All five progressions — B minor ecosystem

fusion_chords_bminor.mid

A Rhodes-and-bass rendering of every progression on this page, each played twice with a bar of silence between sets. The bass supplies the roots you've dropped from the voicings — comp the rootless top-string shapes against it and the full harmony locks together. Same key as Renegade, so it stacks with your whole Bm library.

92 BPM 5 progressions ×2 44 bars · ~1:55 B minor / D major Rhodes + bass

Load it in any DAW or MIDI player and loop it. If your player ignores patch changes, set track 1 to an electric piano and track 2 to a bass. Mute the chord track to comp along; mute the bass to practise the shapes solo.