badrogue17 wrote:
IN my fledgling attempts trying to turn myself from a ne'er -do -well rogue into something of a tunesmith, I never really mastered the barre chord, trying to change from just about any standard chord to a barre chord has left me with nothing but frustration over my bumbling fingers trying to position themselves. Any suggestions from the league of musicians we have here to help me improve the dexterity required to master these fucking things??
Badrogue...
Play your open chords reorganizing your fingering to eliminate use of your first finger.
So when you play an Open E Major, use your pinkie and ring finger for the B and E (Second Fret, 4th and 5th strings) and your middle finger for the G#. Now, if you wanted to slide that up one fret to the F Major Chord, you just slide your hand up one half step and flop that pointer finger right down across the 1st fret. That's a movable chord, it works across the fretboard, becoming an F#Maj, G Maj, G#Maj, A Major, as you move that shape across the board.
DOUG's main advice about making your open shapes without using your pointer finger is the CORRECT ADVICE.
NOW, MY advice would be for you to pick out a song that uses some of these chords and just train your fingers to reorganize. Soon you'll be floppin down those wack chords in no time.
I do understand what Panther was saying. He has a point but I believe he stated it poorly. No guitarist unless we're talking the prodigy of all prodigies is going to play an A maj as clean and bright with a 5th position Barre Chord as he is with an open chord or on 5th position with a capo.
But those open chords aren't right in most songs.
But many many dirty open chords are played throught history. And many distorted barre chords too. We use both in Beneath 51 many times. When we play "SOLAT" I use a 1st position F Major Barre and mix in an open Am, C, G and a triad B.
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bigfan wrote:
Many that is true, but an incomplete statement.