Master Barre Chords!!
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- Опубліковано 6 сер 2024
- Barre Chords
4 Rules
A challenge that faces every beginning and even intermediate level guitarist is mastering the barre chord. If the finer details of hand mechanics aren't approached in the correct manner as soon as these chords are learned it's impossible to master them. In this lesson, I'm going to teach you FOUR rules to follow so you can make your barre chords sound better IMMEDIATELY.
The 4 Rules:
1. Place your thumb on the back of the neck and facing away from you toward the headstock.
2. Arch your hand.
3. Establish a barre with your finger PARALLEL to the fret.
4. Move your elbow away or toward your body
Placing your thumb flat on the back of the neck facing away from you will allow you unrestricted movement to achieve the best angle to hold your barre chord. If your thumb is not facing toward the headstock you are limiting your range of movement. Where is the best place for your thumb? Flat on the center of the neck or slightly lower.
If you don't arch your hand you'll be locking your hand in one position with no freedom of movement and chances are high that you'll be muting the higher strings. The best advice I can give you is to relax your hand and make sure to see space between your hand and the fingerboard.
One of the biggest challenges I see with students is keeping their barred finger parallel to the fret. This is why I wrote the word in caps above. Place your finger flat up against the fret and allow your elbow (more on this in a moment) and thumb to pivot so you can gain more strength in your barre.
By moving your elbow toward or away from your body you can add strength to your barre and gain a much cleaner sound. The movement of your elbow will allow you to pivot on your thumb (if it's in the proper position) and roll either your 1st or 3rd finger slightly on its side for a consistent placement across all strings.
Following the above steps in tandem with the video demonstration will surely improve your barre chords immediately. With daily practice, you'll be on the correct path to mastering your barre chords!
It’s been 7 Years, but most of the stuff I’ve seen so far about learning barre chords, seem to be echoing what you knew then. Great video man 👍🏻
I'm glad you liked it Yash! By the way...if you wanna see my live streams I'll be doing them on Facebook. I was going to start streaming here but youtube is making it SO difficult to do. So, if you'd like to check out my live streams on Facebook just send mea friend request so you'll be notified! facebook.com/johngorbe
Excellent. I would rename this video- how to get rid of B-String Buzz on a Barre Chord. Probably the most difficult part of a clean sound. Let it ring!
Best barre chord video on you tube as of this date! Thanks a bunch.
You stole my words
Also, if you're having issues with more complex barre chords hold your guitar in a more vertical position and work your elbow. Kind of an umbrella statement to cover a lot of possible issues ☺
such a great video! Made a breakthrough in just 9 minutes of watching this. Thank you!
Brilliant Tutorial, some simple changes and my chords sound beautiful.. Thank you
Dan
Thank You so so much! I have looked up about 15 barre chord videos but no one, NO ONE explained it better than you. and I, for the first time got a good barre chord.
Mridul Tiwary I second your comment. As is the case with most things, people who have mastered a skill forget where a beginner is coming from and assumes the beginner knows some of the most basic elements which make all the difference.
Simple and straight forward explanation. Thanks.
This was a HUGE help for me!! I've been struggling with bar Chords. Thank you for doing this video. I will try to start implementing this in my practice. AWESOME......Thank you.
thank you sir, you just made my day.... you are just woww.... thank you sooo much.
I wonder why this Man doesn't have more subscriber. He's awesome at barr techniques. It helped a lot. Thanks man. Love from India ❤️
I've been been struggling for months with barre chords.
Your video is a savior
It helped a lot
Thank you ♥️
this is the greatest lesson I have found about this topic, thank you
I started playing one month ago and this helped me understand barre chords more
I've seen so many videos gor barre chords and i finally mastered it by your video..
Amazing advice. thanks so much!
Thank you. That was excellent. Best wishes.
Pointing the thumb towards the headstock to enable the index finger to rotate slightly towards the headstock is genius. That way, the harder part of the finger is pressing on the strings rather than the soft part. It is worth checking how little pressure you actually need to put on a string to play a clean note. I need to keep practising but just from doing this alone, I have managed some clean chords. Thanks ! 👏👏👏
I agree completely, Mike P. Also I suspect (like me) that you’ve noticed so many videos on barre chords that insist the thumb should be straight up (I think) which simply does not allow my index finger to roll at all. I would be interested in knowing how high towards the headstock is the thumb in relation to the fingers? Is it under the index finger or the third finger, or higher than the fingers? (I suspect the former.)
Useful indeed, thanks John
Very very helpful lesson for those who are learning guitar through watching youtube videos.Thank you❤️
This video helped me so much. I've been really struggling with pain in my left hand.
Thanks. This was the most helpful video I have watched, the Elbow and the thumb positioning helped a lot.
Sam Black Yeh I too found the elbow and Thumb position very helpful...
Dan
Great tips. Many thanks.
Awesome approach!
This is one of the most helpful video on youtube. I still have hard time on A-shape barre-chord. It's almost an impossible barre, but I'm practicing it ...
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I watched a million videos and I still wasn’t able to do it. I finally got it down from this video! THANK YOU
Excellent video Sir.
Great tips, thanks!
Very helpful. Thanks.
MY Goodness where hav you been for the first time in all the years I have been trying I can now barre right doen the ftet you wonderful man xxx
Kristie, excellent!!! I'm glad!
Thanks sir ,the info is 👍
Great lesson
Wow best bar chord video on youtube!!!
Thanks it sounds better already
Tuck your elbow in. Ok, thanks. Hadn't heard that before. Great tip.
a big thank you
Underrated channel
Thanks a lot man. I would never have noticed that my elbow was the reason if i hadnt seen your video. Thumbs up John!! :D
Legend!
geniuse thank you
Very helpful video thanks
You're welcome! Thank you
Thank you so much.
Ron, if you're on Facebook I do live teaching sessions on there. It would be good to see ya!
I've been looking for a video that focused on the hand mechanics. Specifically how to get your index finger to roll towards the headstock.
I have played the guitar now for while and there are two things I can't do, a bar chord and the chord, and believed I have tried and tried to no avail
Thanks
Best video
You, sir, you deserve a great deal of medals, money, cookies, pizza, love, affection, beer, chicks and anything you wish for. You should be a millionaire for this video.
Beer, chicks... haha interesting
its 2017 and this is the best explained video ever
Now it's 2021 and still the best
best video for barre chords :)
Best video on here for barre chords, many thx!!
Thanks for the great replies! If you have ideas for other videos please let me know. I'll be posting some hybrid picking licks in the near future. If this interests you please let me know about this as well!
Hi John, interested in playing the blues. Any licks, chords you have that could help here would be warmly received my friend. Thank you, Dr Paul UK
Dr Paul, where are you with your blues playing? I could even share some blues licks with hybrid picking, which opens up some nice phrasing possibilities. I'm making room in my schedule for online lessons as well if you'd be interested in more personal development. Where are you located?
Hi John, been playing for about 2 years. Learning the pentatonic scales, but would like to be able to play chords that have that real bluesy sound to them John.Could you enlighten me sir? many thanks Doc.
stay tuned! When I get some free time I'll post something
great
Great video Master
Thanks, John! Glad you enjoyed
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Hi. I substitute the full bar F chord with F/C. It sounds great in the songs I sing in place of F. I just don’t wanna learn too many things at the same time when I am already making some little music with what I have learnt. Do you know any singers or guitarists for do not bar fully? I am a beginner and I am just excited to move on and learn other stuff because I can substitute my bars.
You certainly do need some strength, which comes with putting the time in. Once you have enough strength and have been working on your technique you should be much happier with your results.
Good video. My problem with the A shaped barre is that my ring finger that makes the A shape often (too often) touches the A string and either deadens it or plays it. This is especially the case when I am going from an E shape barre to the A shaped barre. Any suggestions??
the problem is when i change from chords to barre chords. any help ?
This thumb position is different to how most others recommend. Usually they say not to point it towards the headstock... What's the thinking behind this being different?
Quite helpful. I've taught myself guitar over the last 3 years. This is the first time ive watched a video on barre chords and I found that I already do the things you say naturally. My problem is the more complex barre chords that don't require a full barre over six strings. I can do them, but my hand get tired sooo quickly. Do you have any strength exercises that you recommend for a stronger hand?
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@Azariah Alessandro Instablaster :)
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88,000 views this video did well for you.
Could You made some videos about playing melodic ideas that suggest other ideas?
When someone plays a melodic motif and before you hear the next phrase, you already know what it's going to sound like.
...sometimes when I listen someone's track/song
I can separate individual elements which can be called the introduction, development, completion, passage between two themes etc
I mean that every next phrase fit into previous,it is like...verse chorus/inhale exhale,break/passage and ending/relaxation.
Each piece of this song fits together perfectly as if someone had cut the picture into pieces
and then stuck them together :)
My problem is:
- how to build phrases which are question
implying the answer?
- how to build phrases
which are suggestive of asking another question
which suggests the next question etc etc before answer ?
"The logic of improvised musical expression
it is what characterizes all great musicians".
..."motives development".
Phrasing typical for a particular style of music
- another mysterious issues for me :)
Opiekun Dps Do you mean paraphrasing the motif and creating sequences? This can be a rhythmic or melodic concept. I can create a video in the future on this.
"paraphrasing" ? Hmm...I use google translator now,Im not enought good in english, especially musical terminology.
"Melodic concept" I suppose that's it :) if we compare music to the language,I would like to know all "dialects and slang".
How to "speak" in chosen genre,how to speak in jazz language
how in country language,how "talk" in fusion or classical music
etc etc
How does it work difference,where is the secret?
Opiekun Dps I apologize it took a while to respond. Every style makes use of all 12 notes - the difference is the techniques and phrasing used. For example, Country will use chickin pickin, double stop bends and open strings to and just a few concepts...Jazz will use complex harmony, very little if any bends and more tension to resolve. I hope this helps. obviously, this takes years and years to feel comfortable. If you need more advice or want lessons please let me know. maybe we can work something out via Skype or similar.
I cant,I use google translaator to talk with you ,it would be hard take lessons on Skype :p
I play the guitar and I find that Barre chords are difficult, but as I play it gets easier
Yes but how do you quickly switch back and forth between these barre chords and other chords in a song? That’s a lot of fingers to place just perfectly in complicated shapes. 😢
Practice...the muscle memory needs to be there. No substitute for putting the time in 😊
I've always had trouble getting the second and third note to sound, I've tried moving my finger up and moving my elbow in but nothing works :(
Help please
That's my problem too do you find solution?
+Rade Petrovic I think it just comes with practice. Your fingers will get stronger. :)
+#WEIGHTOFLIVING ok tnx :D
Erica well i would love to know how you both are at guitar after 2 years now 🙄
i watch this after 8 years
Ask steve vai.
Hard to do when barring the first fret.
Hi, Sharad! First, check to make sure that your strings aren't sitting too high at the nut. If it's especially difficult at the first fret check action. After that, it just takes lots of reps as you do need a little more strength at the nut.
First of all i wanna thank Jesus Christ,mother mary and father joseph .and next you it worked thank you everyone
The difficulty isn’t forming the barre chords, it’s switching between chords quickly enough.
When was this video taken?
1920??
big deal
Fuck all
I meant to say I can't play a bar chord or a F chord
never mention how to change between open and barre chords , didnt help
One more video that doesn't address the elephant in the hand. Most guy players have big sausage like fleshy solid man fingers. They don't follow the contour of the bone.
Although yours are the closest yet you still have pretty solid looking and big, fingers.
My fingers are bony. It is not possible to get anything like even pressure all across so buzzing and dead sound is common. Doesn't matter if I use the flat, the side, the bottom or anywhere. Check out the shape of a finger bone and tell me how to get a remotely flat contact area.
Maybe I should force feed myself and take supplements to try and get fat sausage fingers but it doesn't seem to work like that.
Even a lot of girls I watch have sausage fingers, although smaller and more elegant.
To get a good bar I need a sausage finger.
Rule n 1 is wrong.....that s a very bad technique, sorry. thumb must be upright, that s the correct technique
Hey, Gib! Nothing to be sorry about. If that works for you do it. Thanks for watching! 👍
@@johngorbe thanks mate ;)
Thank you, Steve! I'm glad it helped! Please let me know what kind of lessons you would like in the future. I'll be posting videos every week and want to know what topics everyone would like covered.
Mridul and everyone who this video helped - thank you for the kind words! Please let me know if there is anything you need help with. I'd like feedback so these videos can be helpful. Maybe create some workshop opportunities online or even Skype lessons in the near future!!
Popnfreshz - I will be starting a series on UA-cam soon that will involve my subscribers. I'll be filming more consistently and lessons will be interactive with the community. For special rewards I'll be on Patreon, which will be very exciting. Look for a video soon explaining how this works. You can also go to their website and read more about it. It's an excellent win-win for everyone involved!
weightofliving, do you mean the 2nd and 3rd strings or the 5th and 4th strings on the bass side?
Luddited - how are you doing with the barre chords? You won't watch this video and get it the first time. You still have to practice and get used to the tetechnique even after learning the correct way.
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thank you, very helpful
Thanks