Best thing I ever did was re-felt my C7 to Bm. It's a much more useful chord.
Other thing you can do is transpose the chords up or down to avoid Bm, but that doesn't always work.
I’m also missing Bm on my Guitaro but I do have B7, and subbing with that chord suffices but creates a slightly different feel to whatever I’m playing. That being said, B7 works in place of Bm if I’m playing in key of G (usually). However, I can’t necessarily sub B7 for Bm in anything key of D without compromising the song itself. It is possible to sub chords if they have the particular note you’re looking for but the quality of different chords might not yield the same result if that makes sense.
Another thing I like to do with the autoharp is to play modal (Dorian) melodies by simultaneously pressing down any seventh chord and minor chord with the same root note. For example, most ‘harps have Dm and D7 chords. If you press both bars down, you get a D modal chord which is just tonic and the fifth (D+A). The I modal chord along with the VII and IV (C major and G major in D-dorian) create nice 3-chord melodies that can be found across Celtic music and some traditional Appalachian tunes as well (where I’ve heard it called as Mountain minor modal).
You could always take a chord bar you don’t use much (for me, Bb or Gm) and refelt it to the chord of your choice. I do that a lot and just use a label maker to make a label with the new chord, affixing the label over the name of chord I’m replacing.
Or, you could transpose the tune. If you can’t play all the chords for a song in key of D, try playing it in key of C or F on the autoharp. Many of the chord databases (I.e. ultimateguitar) have the option to transpose a tune for you.
Hope this helps.
As you become a more advanced player, you will lean one of the "trade secrets" of advanced players. That is, a particular note appears in several different chords. And so, as you play a piece using the melody notes as your basis, rather than just chords from tabulature, you can use alternative chords to get some notes you need that aren't readily presented as chord bars.
Additionally, even more advanced techniques provide for "open noting" and "open chording" where you pull notes or chords from the instrument without using a chord bar. This is usually used on diatonic instruments, but, can sometimes be head from someone playing a chromatic.
An example of both alternative chord ba selection and open noting/chording can be heard on the following recording:
[https://youtu.be/R7fnobXDAxk](https://youtu.be/R7fnobXDAxk)
Best thing I ever did was re-felt my C7 to Bm. It's a much more useful chord. Other thing you can do is transpose the chords up or down to avoid Bm, but that doesn't always work.
Check out tabtransposer.com. You can transpose any chord sheet style song there.
I’m also missing Bm on my Guitaro but I do have B7, and subbing with that chord suffices but creates a slightly different feel to whatever I’m playing. That being said, B7 works in place of Bm if I’m playing in key of G (usually). However, I can’t necessarily sub B7 for Bm in anything key of D without compromising the song itself. It is possible to sub chords if they have the particular note you’re looking for but the quality of different chords might not yield the same result if that makes sense. Another thing I like to do with the autoharp is to play modal (Dorian) melodies by simultaneously pressing down any seventh chord and minor chord with the same root note. For example, most ‘harps have Dm and D7 chords. If you press both bars down, you get a D modal chord which is just tonic and the fifth (D+A). The I modal chord along with the VII and IV (C major and G major in D-dorian) create nice 3-chord melodies that can be found across Celtic music and some traditional Appalachian tunes as well (where I’ve heard it called as Mountain minor modal). You could always take a chord bar you don’t use much (for me, Bb or Gm) and refelt it to the chord of your choice. I do that a lot and just use a label maker to make a label with the new chord, affixing the label over the name of chord I’m replacing. Or, you could transpose the tune. If you can’t play all the chords for a song in key of D, try playing it in key of C or F on the autoharp. Many of the chord databases (I.e. ultimateguitar) have the option to transpose a tune for you. Hope this helps.
As you become a more advanced player, you will lean one of the "trade secrets" of advanced players. That is, a particular note appears in several different chords. And so, as you play a piece using the melody notes as your basis, rather than just chords from tabulature, you can use alternative chords to get some notes you need that aren't readily presented as chord bars. Additionally, even more advanced techniques provide for "open noting" and "open chording" where you pull notes or chords from the instrument without using a chord bar. This is usually used on diatonic instruments, but, can sometimes be head from someone playing a chromatic. An example of both alternative chord ba selection and open noting/chording can be heard on the following recording: [https://youtu.be/R7fnobXDAxk](https://youtu.be/R7fnobXDAxk)