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Many beginning guitarists are intimidated by barre chords. They are difficult to finger at first. However, anyone can do it with enough perseverance. If you keep trying, there will come a day when they are easy. Once you have mastered them, you can play any chord in multiple positions all over the neck. They are a powerfully ally. Come to know them, they will be your friends! For this class I don’t expect you to be able to play them perfectly, but I want you to at least be able to find major and minor chords using the four shapes discussed below and show me where you put your fingers to make them. Most of this stuff is straight from Wikipedia. A barre chord ("E Major shape"), with the index finger used to bar the strings. A barre chord (also known as bar chord or rarely barr chord) is a type of guitar chord, where one or more fingers are used to press down multiple strings across the guitar fingerboard (like a bar pressing down the strings, thus the name), enabling the guitarist to play a chord not restricted by the tones of the guitar's open strings. Barre chords are a type of "moveable" chords, as the whole hand may easily be moved up and down the neck, "in one movement". Commonly used in most popular and classical music, they are frequently used in combination with "open" or standard guitar chords. The two most commonly barred notes are variations of A and E. These barre chords are most common in rock, blues and country music. The E barre chord is made of an E chord shape (022100) moved up and down the frets and being barred, changing the notes. For example, the E chord barred one fret up becomes an F chord (133211). The next fret up is F?, followed by G, A?, A, B?, B, C, C?, D, E?, and then back to E (1 octave up) at fret twelve. E AE-------------0---------------5---B-------------0---------------5---G-------------1---------------6---D-------------2---------------7---A-------------2---------------7---E-------------0---------------5---Guitar tablature of an open E chord and an E-shape A barre chord.The A barre chord, commonly called the "double barre", is made by sliding the A chord shape (X02220) up and down the frets. When the A chord is barred, the index finger lies across the top five strings, touching the 6th string (E) to deaden it. Either the ring or little finger is then barred across the 2nd (B), 3rd (G), and 4th (D) strings two frets down, or one finger frets each string. For instance, if barred at the second fret, the A chord becomes B (X24442). From fret one to twelve, the barred A becomes B?, B, C, C?, D, E?, E, F, F?, G, A?, and at the twelfth fret (that is, one octave up), it is A again. A DE-------------0---------------5---B-------------2---------------7---G-------------2---------------7---D-------------2---------------7---A-------------0---------------5---E---------------------------------Guitar tablature of an open A chord and an A-shape D barre chord.Often the highest note in a double barre chord is left out.All variations of these two chords can be barred: dominant 7ths, minors, minor 7ths, etc. (I’m not going to require you to know all these chords for this class, but isn’t it good to know that you’ll be able to do them too after you learn this?) Any major chord on the guitar can be played with A and E barre chords. Minor barre chords are made the same as other chords, by flattening the third (in E and A shaped barre chords, this happens to be the highest 'non-barred' note). Example: F Fm C CmE--------1--------1--------3-------3-------B--------1--------1--------5-------4-------G--------2--------1--------5-------5-------D--------3--------3--------5-------5-------A--------3--------3--------3-------3-------E--------1--------1------------------------In addition to the two most common shapes above, barre/moveable chords can also be built around C, D and G shapes, similarly drawn from their open position equivalents. However, these shapes are not used as commonly as E and A. Example: D A EmE--------2--------5--------3-------B--------3--------2--------5-------G--------2--------2--------4-------D--------4--------2--------2-------A--------5--------4----------------E-----------------5----------------The first one “G” is an example of an E shape bar chord. The second one “C” is an A shape. The third one, “Gm” is an E minor shape. Note that the only difference between it and the first one is that in the minor chord the second finger isn’t being used. The last one, “Cm” uses an A minor shape, just like the first chord in “House Of the Risin’ Sun”. Remember that this chord is just like the E major chord except you move all your fingers over one string. The lowest note in all these chords is the one being held down by the first finger on either the low E string or the A string. Whatever that note is, that’s what cord you are making! ................
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