Find the chord charts at http://www.freeguitarvideos.com/Beginner/Beg_05.html This lesson will teach you several techniques that will make barre chords easier to play. A barre chord is a chord where the first finger is barring across several strings. Proper placement and technique can help eliminate muted notes or extra stress on your left hand. We’ll cover four different shapes of barre chords by learning how to play G, Gm, C, and Cm. You can move the shapes up and down the neck to play chords in different keys.
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day 1 of practicing: ouch is all I have to say
My buddy told me to find u. Glad I did. Explanation was fabulous. I'll practice. Thank u. Next..where do u show me how u play songs or where is your sheet music. Love this easy technique
I'm 65. First guitar. U are my first guitar lesson.
Me coming here after 4 months of guitar, seeing people who've been playing for 2 years and still struggling with this be like: o.o
Imma head out 😂
13 damn years
My hand literally can’t
I want to rip the fucking strings off of this fucking thing I stg
Old but gold
From the beginning of learning to play guitar – well over 40 years ago – I can remember how hard it was to master barre chords. Particularly as I first had a cheap acoustic with skyscraper-HIGH action on it. But even with proper action and a good-playing guitar, one must gain the required (and strategic) hand / wrist and finger strength that makes playing them easy. I always liked coming up with my own songs, even though I didn't know very many chords or much theory. But with my then-limited chord knowledge, what I was capable of playing sounded pretty limiting and typically wasn't very interesting. However, I eventually found that if you can master just a handful of basic barre chord shapes along with some other techniques like alternate picking, hammer-ons, pull-offs, muting strings, playing powerchords, and to strum well – then one can turn four or five barre chord shapes into some very interesting music. As applying some of these techniques can be used to creatively employ barre chords up and down the neck, giving one significant composing options.
Many great and beautiful songs have rather simple chordings. But it is often HOW one plays those chords that can open up a world of tonal possibilities and contrasts. The other thing to add easy interest – be aware of where you can add chord suspensions – just experiment with adding notes played by your pinky – stretch it linearly, high or low and use your ear to judge whether you like the results. You can also use suspensions to create texture between dissonant-sounding chords using a suspension and when you move your pinking to resolve it back to a pleasing chord shape . Or consider picking your way through barre chord and / or hammer each note with your index finger as you play through the chord. Hammer-on an entire chord. Etc. And remember, once you can easily play barre chords on an acoustic, these will be far-easier to play on most electrics. And to make them easy to play, one must play them a lot – else, you'll loose your hand/finger strength and thus they will be harder to play, especially without hand / finger fatigue.
Thank u! This helped so much
I think bar chord f is actually impossible of my guitar like even if I press my whole hand of the fret I cant do it the other chords I can do but very badly but I know that I can better at them if I practise but the f chord I think it's actually impossible on my guitar