Often, as in the example below, the first finger does not actually form a barre, but instead simply plays the root note.

The most common way to play the Bb chord essentially the root-5 Bb barre chord, played on the first fret. If you’ve come to this page just to view some chord diagrams for B flat, here they are. The chords in the key of Bb are: Bb, Cm, Dm, Eb, F, Gm, A diminished. The Bb Major chord is the first chord in the key of Bb.The Bb Major chord (just like all Major chords) contains the following intervals (from the root note): Major 3rd, minor 3rd, Perfect 4th (back to the root note).The Bb Major chord is produced by playing the 1st (root), 3rd and 5th notes of the Bb Major scale.

The B flat Major chord contains the notes Bb, D and F.

The most common ways of playing it are on the first fret as a root-5 bar chord and on the 6th fret as a root 6 bar chord. It is the 4th chord in the key of F (a very popular key), which means it get used quite a lot. The Bb Major chord is a common chord on the guitar.

B flat 6 guitar chord