Chords for Beginner Guitar Lesson: Barre Chords and Some Easy Tips

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Hey, what's up out there?
[N] Marty Schwartz here, GuitarJams.com, the website where you can
learn guitar and enjoy yourself in the process.
Love for you to come check it out.
But anyway,
I got a free lesson for you right now, because that's the kind of guy I am.
_ And here it is.
It's a bar chord tip lesson, alright?
The bar chords, right?
People have been playing
the open chords, they're doing really well, they're feeling confident, and then all of
a sudden there's a wrench thrown into the mix, the bar chord, the evil bar chord.
We
hate it, right?
Well, you know, it's just like anything, you gotta work at it, and you
get a little better every day, ten minutes at a time.
That's really all it takes.
Ten
minute doses of concentration, boom, then you're off to do whatever you need to do.
So what I recommend with a bar chord, let's talk about the B minor chord.
That tends to
be the one that starts creeping in when we're playing songs.
A B minor chord is index finger
is barred on the second fret, and then my ring finger is on the fourth fret [F#] of the D
string. _
_ [D] Pinky's on the fourth [C] fret of the G [Bm] string, _ _ _ _ barred, and middle finger is on the
third fret of the B string. _ _ _ _
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_ It can be very challenging for students, I've seen it over
and over, and I've had a couple of things that have been successful _ to get _ better at
it.
What I think you should do, and this is going to be a quick little lesson, _ _ _ sometimes
bar _ first, _ and then plug in the shape.
So I get the bar down, and then I find the shape. _ _ _ _ _
So [Em] you do that.
_ Other times, _ is _ someone breaking into my car or something?
Another time, get
the shape first, [Bm] _
_ _ _ _ then bar. _ _
[N] So I want you to take turns with those, and eventually,
you've got the barring first over here, hello, you've got the shape first over here, hello,
_ _ and you practice one in here, you practice one here, you practice one here, you practice
one here, and then they melt into a Voltron of guitar power, okay?
So you need to do it
that way, where you're mixing it up, back and forth.
Bar, [Bm] shape.
_ Shape, bar.
It'll force
your hand to kind of get into the right position. _
Another thing is if you just think of your
fingers, if you can, parallel _ to the frets when you're playing. _
_ _ _ _ So my [N] elbow's not out
here, my fingers aren't tilted diagonal down that way, it's more like this.
Not like this,
but like this. _
You know, so you can be like, yes, yes!
Like that, [F#]
[G] alright?
_ [F#] So [G] there's a
Grand Prix going [G#] on outside my house, but anyway, _ work on that for your bar chords.
Bar, shape, shape, bar. _
Just start working on that, see how that works for you.
I've
had some success with my [Gm] students doing that, so, _ GuitarJams.com!
We'll see you later. _ _ _ _ _
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