(If you’re interested I use the principle of Common Chord Fingers and explain it in more detail in my Real Guitar Success Academy.)ĭo this for just a few minutes each day and you'll have this easy F guitar chord down. Strum each chord one time and then change.įinally, increase the speed of the metronome a little bit at a time (5bpm) to build up speed. When you can do this without too much of a challenge, strum once per chord. Practice so you can change on time without stopping or slowing down. To help keep you on time use a metronome at a slow speed. To practice, strum the C chord twice, and then change to the F chord (while leaving the Common Chord Fingers where they are each time). These go to show how flexible the guitar can be Theres almost always viable alternatives to any tricky chord situation. Now let's move back to the C chord.ĭo this a few times without strumming to get the feel of the movement. The ability to play guitar chords with your left-hand fingers 'barred' across strings is one of the most important techniques to learn if youre interested venturing beyond the beginner stage. These are what we call Common Chord Fingers. Keep your first and third fingers in place during the chord change. Move your middle finger up one string to the 3rd string (still 2nd fret), and place your pinky on the 3rd fret of the 4th string. From here there are only two small movements to get to the easy F chord. Its the same form with the exception of the missing note on the 5th string.
This is your standard C Major open chord. Here is a popular alternative way of playing the A minor style barre chord. You’ll practice a very common movement.Ģ) It uses a method called Common Chord Fingers.įirst, make a folk-style C chord. It’s effective for two reasons…ġ) It uses a chord that’s very often used with F. Here is an extremely effective way to practice this. Knowing the chord doesn’t help unless you can play it smoothly without thinking about it.
F BAR CHORD ALTERNATIVE HOW TO
It sounds great, and there’s no reason you can’t continue to play this version as long as you want, maybe forever.Now that you know how to play the easy F chord on your guitar, let’s work on chord changes. If you’re having a hard time playing the fully barred F chord, try this easier version. If you’re not getting a nice, clean sound, try moving your fingers closer to the body of your guitar. That makes it much easier to push the string down cleanly against the fret. Look how close Anna’s fingers are, particularly her first finger, to the fret in front of the one she’s targeting. Even so, this chord still requires solid. This gives her lots of leverage to clamp down on those strings. As you can see, we no longer need to totally barre the first fret, so thats a huge relief for a beginner guitarist. Her thumb is on the back of the guitar’s neck, leaving and empty spot in the palm of her hand so big, she could hold an egg there if she wanted to. It’s because she’s holding an egg.īut pretend she had an egg in the palm of her hand.
Keep your fingers curved so that the very tip of the finger is pushing down on the string, not the pad of the finger where your fingerprint is. Particularly with those third and fourth fingers, it can be tricky to keep them from touching the string next to the one they’re supposed to be pushing down. Notice how Anna’s first finger, the one performing the barre, is somewhat curved.Įven though it’s stretched across all six strings, if you look closely at the diagram, you’ll notice that it only has to push down on the first, second, and sixth strings–the thinnest two strings, and the thickest one.ĭon’t waste your effort trying to push down the middle three. A few things from Anna’s form you should take notice of: Put pressure where it counts
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