Chords for How To Practice Barre Chords and Develop Groove
Tempo:
105.7 bpm
Chords used:
Dm
Am
Gm
Cm
G
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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Hi, Dave Jones here again.
We're going to do a little bit of a further feature really on the bar chords, the E and A shaped bar chords.
There's a video up and PDFs on how to play them.
So I'm not going to actually show you how bar chords work or anything in this little video.
It's basically just getting you to change between the shapes.
[Am] And also to develop some rhythmic groove when you're playing between the chords.
So what I'll do is, just for [Ab] a bar chord to start off with, I'm going to start with an A minor bar [Am] chord.
Now, when you're practising changing shapes and learning the shapes, the first thing to do is to learn the two shapes which, like I say, I won't dwell on because there's a video up for that if you want to learn that.
But to practise [Dm] changing between them and also get used to the sound, it's very important to be able to distinguish [G] between a major chord and a minor chord.
That's your first point of call to distinguish between two chord types.
So if you practise them, say for example if you're trying to learn the names of the notes on the fretboard, fingerboard, it's very difficult to learn all of the names of the notes on the E and the A strings at once.
I'd suggest you learn [Gm] the names of the notes of the dots first and then kind of work the rest out from there.
So what we'll do is we'll start off with a G minor chord and [Cm] then we're going to change to a C minor chord.
[Gm] So your G minor root note E string, [Cm] C minor root note A string, [Gm] using the E minor shape and [Cm] the A minor shape.
And what you do is you just strum for four beats [Gm] on the G minor, [Cm] change to the C minor.
[Gm] And when you've done [Cm] that, change to the A minor fifth fret, [Am] E shape, [Dm] E minor fifth fret, [Am] A minor.
[Dm]
And then change to [Bm] the B minor.
This is the seventh [Em] fret, E minor, [Bm] B minor.
[Em] And you just develop like a rhythmic groove changing [N] between the shapes.
It's doing two things.
If you listen to the chords, it's getting you aware of the sound of that minor chord.
It doesn't make any musical sense to change between those shapes and moving all the way along the fingerboard because they're not all in the same key as each other.
So you're not going to get that in a song as such.
But it gets your fingers used to the movement and because you're getting used to this movement, you can groove away on it.
If you play a chord like for example, I was just playing a D minor chord in that.
This is a useful technique actually.
It's called damping with the fretting hand.
If you get your D minor shape, again you need to check out the bar chord shape.
If I've got my D minor shape here, A minor shape, bar lot, fifth fret.
If I don't push all the strings down, if I just let my fingers touch the strings but don't push them down and strum them, I get this percussive sound.
Any strumming pattern you want, you get this sort of dead string sound.
And while you're doing that, just set up a strumming pattern down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up, up, [A] down, up, whatever you want.
[D]
And then when you've got that going, squeeze the chord every now and then whenever you want it to ring.
But you be in control of when it rings.
[Dm]
Just make up any sort of rhythms you want.
[Bb] And that will improve your general sort of groove and how you deal with these chords.
And then [Gm] you can change between the chords like I was saying.
[Cm]
[C] [Am]
[Dm] [D] [Dm]
Just groove away endlessly.
[G] And then what happens when you've done your minor chords?
Do the same with the major chords.
[Gm] [C] [Bb]
[C] [G]
Etc.
And you'll start to [N] try and think about the sounds that you're creating.
Change between minor and minor.
A minor to E minor shapes.
And major to major.
E major to A major shapes.
Create the rhythmic groove.
And just doing that is a really, really good practice routine.
You're getting your ears used to the sound and the difference between major and minor chords.
You're developing rhythmic groove and feel.
And you're practicing the chord changing between the chord shapes.
All in one lesson.
You can do an awful lot of things with barre chords that you can't do with open chords.
Open chords are obviously very useful.
But one is you can play on any key if you're checking out the barre chord lesson and E and A shape barre chords.
That will help.
But the other thing that you can do is on not only [Dm] this groove, you [Dbm] can slide into [Dm] chords.
[Dm] On the [Ebm] barre chord.
[Dm]
[Db] [Dm] And [G] obviously if you slide into every single chord or you mute every single chord, it sounds as predictable as if you don't.
But if you mix it all up in a chord sequence, so you're getting [Ab] sort of [Am] a
[Dm]
[Am]
[Dm]
[Am] [Am]
[Dm] [Ebm] [Dm]
[N] You can groove away endlessly like that and eventually it will become part of your plan.
When you want to do it, it will just happen naturally.
So it's a good way to practice barre chords.
Start with major and minors and then move on to
Again, you can check out the lessons on this.
Move on to the major, minor and dominant 7 barre chords.
And so on.
And practice that sort of thing.
It's a good little exercise to practice any chord shape up and down the neck.
A bit of rhythmic groove in there.
A bit of oral training as well, which is very important.
So I hope you
We're going to do a little bit of a further feature really on the bar chords, the E and A shaped bar chords.
There's a video up and PDFs on how to play them.
So I'm not going to actually show you how bar chords work or anything in this little video.
It's basically just getting you to change between the shapes.
[Am] And also to develop some rhythmic groove when you're playing between the chords.
So what I'll do is, just for [Ab] a bar chord to start off with, I'm going to start with an A minor bar [Am] chord.
Now, when you're practising changing shapes and learning the shapes, the first thing to do is to learn the two shapes which, like I say, I won't dwell on because there's a video up for that if you want to learn that.
But to practise [Dm] changing between them and also get used to the sound, it's very important to be able to distinguish [G] between a major chord and a minor chord.
That's your first point of call to distinguish between two chord types.
So if you practise them, say for example if you're trying to learn the names of the notes on the fretboard, fingerboard, it's very difficult to learn all of the names of the notes on the E and the A strings at once.
I'd suggest you learn [Gm] the names of the notes of the dots first and then kind of work the rest out from there.
So what we'll do is we'll start off with a G minor chord and [Cm] then we're going to change to a C minor chord.
[Gm] So your G minor root note E string, [Cm] C minor root note A string, [Gm] using the E minor shape and [Cm] the A minor shape.
And what you do is you just strum for four beats [Gm] on the G minor, [Cm] change to the C minor.
[Gm] And when you've done [Cm] that, change to the A minor fifth fret, [Am] E shape, [Dm] E minor fifth fret, [Am] A minor.
[Dm]
And then change to [Bm] the B minor.
This is the seventh [Em] fret, E minor, [Bm] B minor.
[Em] And you just develop like a rhythmic groove changing [N] between the shapes.
It's doing two things.
If you listen to the chords, it's getting you aware of the sound of that minor chord.
It doesn't make any musical sense to change between those shapes and moving all the way along the fingerboard because they're not all in the same key as each other.
So you're not going to get that in a song as such.
But it gets your fingers used to the movement and because you're getting used to this movement, you can groove away on it.
If you play a chord like for example, I was just playing a D minor chord in that.
This is a useful technique actually.
It's called damping with the fretting hand.
If you get your D minor shape, again you need to check out the bar chord shape.
If I've got my D minor shape here, A minor shape, bar lot, fifth fret.
If I don't push all the strings down, if I just let my fingers touch the strings but don't push them down and strum them, I get this percussive sound.
Any strumming pattern you want, you get this sort of dead string sound.
And while you're doing that, just set up a strumming pattern down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up, up, [A] down, up, whatever you want.
[D]
And then when you've got that going, squeeze the chord every now and then whenever you want it to ring.
But you be in control of when it rings.
[Dm]
Just make up any sort of rhythms you want.
[Bb] And that will improve your general sort of groove and how you deal with these chords.
And then [Gm] you can change between the chords like I was saying.
[Cm]
[C] [Am]
[Dm] [D] [Dm]
Just groove away endlessly.
[G] And then what happens when you've done your minor chords?
Do the same with the major chords.
[Gm] [C] [Bb]
[C] [G]
Etc.
And you'll start to [N] try and think about the sounds that you're creating.
Change between minor and minor.
A minor to E minor shapes.
And major to major.
E major to A major shapes.
Create the rhythmic groove.
And just doing that is a really, really good practice routine.
You're getting your ears used to the sound and the difference between major and minor chords.
You're developing rhythmic groove and feel.
And you're practicing the chord changing between the chord shapes.
All in one lesson.
You can do an awful lot of things with barre chords that you can't do with open chords.
Open chords are obviously very useful.
But one is you can play on any key if you're checking out the barre chord lesson and E and A shape barre chords.
That will help.
But the other thing that you can do is on not only [Dm] this groove, you [Dbm] can slide into [Dm] chords.
[Dm] On the [Ebm] barre chord.
[Dm]
[Db] [Dm] And [G] obviously if you slide into every single chord or you mute every single chord, it sounds as predictable as if you don't.
But if you mix it all up in a chord sequence, so you're getting [Ab] sort of [Am] a
[Dm]
[Am]
[Dm]
[Am] [Am]
[Dm] [Ebm] [Dm]
[N] You can groove away endlessly like that and eventually it will become part of your plan.
When you want to do it, it will just happen naturally.
So it's a good way to practice barre chords.
Start with major and minors and then move on to
Again, you can check out the lessons on this.
Move on to the major, minor and dominant 7 barre chords.
And so on.
And practice that sort of thing.
It's a good little exercise to practice any chord shape up and down the neck.
A bit of rhythmic groove in there.
A bit of oral training as well, which is very important.
So I hope you
Key:
Dm
Am
Gm
Cm
G
Dm
Am
Gm
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ Hi, Dave Jones here again.
We're going to do a little bit of a further feature really on the bar chords, the E and A shaped bar chords.
There's a video up and PDFs on how to play them.
So I'm not going to actually show you how bar chords work or anything in this little video.
It's basically just getting you to change between the shapes. _
[Am] And also to develop some rhythmic groove when you're playing between the chords.
So what I'll do is, just for [Ab] a bar chord to start off with, I'm going to start with an A minor bar [Am] chord.
_ Now, when you're practising changing shapes and learning the shapes, the first thing to do is to learn the two shapes which, like I say, I won't dwell on because there's a video up for that if you want to learn that.
But to practise [Dm] changing between them and also get used to the sound, it's very important to be able to distinguish [G] between a major chord and a minor chord.
That's your first point of call to distinguish between two chord types.
So if you practise them, say for example if you're trying to learn the names of the notes on the fretboard, fingerboard, it's very difficult to learn all of the names of the notes on the E and the A strings at once.
I'd suggest you learn [Gm] the names of the notes of the dots first and then kind of work the rest out from there.
So what we'll do is we'll start off with a G minor chord and [Cm] then we're going to change to a C minor chord.
[Gm] So your G minor root note E string, [Cm] C minor root note A string, [Gm] using the E minor shape and [Cm] the A minor shape.
And what you do is you just strum for four beats [Gm] on the G minor, _ _ _ [Cm] change to the C minor. _ _
[Gm] _ _ And when you've done [Cm] that, change to the A minor fifth fret, [Am] E shape, _ _ _ [Dm] E minor fifth fret, [Am] _ A minor.
_ _ [Dm] _
_ And then change to [Bm] the B minor.
This is the seventh [Em] fret, _ E minor, [Bm] B minor. _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ And you just develop like a rhythmic groove changing [N] between the shapes.
It's doing two things.
If you listen to the chords, it's getting you aware of the sound of that minor chord. _ _
It doesn't make any musical sense to change between those shapes and moving all the way along the fingerboard because they're not all in the same key as each other.
So you're not going to get that in a song as such.
But it gets your fingers used to the movement and because you're getting used to this movement, you can groove away on it.
If you play a chord like for example, I was just playing a D minor chord in that.
This is a useful technique actually.
It's called damping with the fretting hand.
If you get your D minor shape, again you need to check out the bar chord shape.
If I've got my D minor shape here, A minor shape, bar lot, fifth fret.
If I don't push all the strings down, if I just let my fingers touch the strings but don't push them down and strum them, I get this percussive sound. _
_ _ _ _ Any strumming pattern you want, you get this sort of dead _ string sound.
And while you're doing that, just set up a strumming pattern down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up, up, [A] down, up, whatever you want.
_ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And then when you've got that going, squeeze the chord every now and then whenever you want it to ring.
But you be in control of when it rings.
_ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Just make up any sort of rhythms you want. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ And that will improve your general sort of groove and how you deal with these chords.
And then [Gm] you can change between the chords like I was saying. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ Just groove away endlessly.
[G] And then what happens when you've done your minor chords?
Do the same with the major chords. _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Etc.
And you'll start to [N] try and think about the sounds that you're creating.
Change between minor and minor.
A minor to E minor shapes.
And major to major. _ _
E major to A major shapes.
Create the rhythmic groove.
And just doing that is a really, really good practice routine.
You're getting your ears used to the sound and the difference between major and minor chords.
You're developing rhythmic groove and feel.
And you're practicing the chord changing between the chord shapes.
All in one lesson.
You can do an awful lot of things with barre chords that you can't do with open chords.
Open chords are obviously very useful.
But one is you can play on any key if you're checking out the barre chord lesson and E and A shape barre chords.
That will help.
But the other thing that you can do is on not only [Dm] this groove, _ you [Dbm] can slide into [Dm] chords. _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ On the [Ebm] barre chord.
[Dm] _ _ _
[Db] _ [Dm] And _ [G] obviously if you slide into every single chord or you _ mute every single chord, it sounds as predictable as if you don't.
But if you mix it all up in a chord sequence, so you're getting [Ab] sort of [Am] a_ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ [Dm] _ _
_ [N] You can groove away endlessly like that and eventually it will become part of your plan.
_ When you want to do it, it will just happen naturally.
So it's a good way to practice barre chords.
_ Start with major and minors and then move on _ to_
Again, you can check out the lessons on this.
Move on to the major, minor and dominant 7 barre chords.
And so on.
And practice that sort of thing.
It's a good little exercise to practice any chord shape up and down the neck.
A bit of rhythmic groove in there.
A bit of oral training as well, which is very important.
So I hope you
_ _ Hi, Dave Jones here again.
We're going to do a little bit of a further feature really on the bar chords, the E and A shaped bar chords.
There's a video up and PDFs on how to play them.
So I'm not going to actually show you how bar chords work or anything in this little video.
It's basically just getting you to change between the shapes. _
[Am] And also to develop some rhythmic groove when you're playing between the chords.
So what I'll do is, just for [Ab] a bar chord to start off with, I'm going to start with an A minor bar [Am] chord.
_ Now, when you're practising changing shapes and learning the shapes, the first thing to do is to learn the two shapes which, like I say, I won't dwell on because there's a video up for that if you want to learn that.
But to practise [Dm] changing between them and also get used to the sound, it's very important to be able to distinguish [G] between a major chord and a minor chord.
That's your first point of call to distinguish between two chord types.
So if you practise them, say for example if you're trying to learn the names of the notes on the fretboard, fingerboard, it's very difficult to learn all of the names of the notes on the E and the A strings at once.
I'd suggest you learn [Gm] the names of the notes of the dots first and then kind of work the rest out from there.
So what we'll do is we'll start off with a G minor chord and [Cm] then we're going to change to a C minor chord.
[Gm] So your G minor root note E string, [Cm] C minor root note A string, [Gm] using the E minor shape and [Cm] the A minor shape.
And what you do is you just strum for four beats [Gm] on the G minor, _ _ _ [Cm] change to the C minor. _ _
[Gm] _ _ And when you've done [Cm] that, change to the A minor fifth fret, [Am] E shape, _ _ _ [Dm] E minor fifth fret, [Am] _ A minor.
_ _ [Dm] _
_ And then change to [Bm] the B minor.
This is the seventh [Em] fret, _ E minor, [Bm] B minor. _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ And you just develop like a rhythmic groove changing [N] between the shapes.
It's doing two things.
If you listen to the chords, it's getting you aware of the sound of that minor chord. _ _
It doesn't make any musical sense to change between those shapes and moving all the way along the fingerboard because they're not all in the same key as each other.
So you're not going to get that in a song as such.
But it gets your fingers used to the movement and because you're getting used to this movement, you can groove away on it.
If you play a chord like for example, I was just playing a D minor chord in that.
This is a useful technique actually.
It's called damping with the fretting hand.
If you get your D minor shape, again you need to check out the bar chord shape.
If I've got my D minor shape here, A minor shape, bar lot, fifth fret.
If I don't push all the strings down, if I just let my fingers touch the strings but don't push them down and strum them, I get this percussive sound. _
_ _ _ _ Any strumming pattern you want, you get this sort of dead _ string sound.
And while you're doing that, just set up a strumming pattern down, down, up, up, down, up, down, down, up, up, [A] down, up, whatever you want.
_ _ [D] _ _ _
_ _ _ _ And then when you've got that going, squeeze the chord every now and then whenever you want it to ring.
But you be in control of when it rings.
_ _ [Dm] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Just make up any sort of rhythms you want. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bb] _ _ _ And that will improve your general sort of groove and how you deal with these chords.
And then [Gm] you can change between the chords like I was saying. _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [C] _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ [D] _ _ [Dm] _ _
_ _ Just groove away endlessly.
[G] And then what happens when you've done your minor chords?
Do the same with the major chords. _ _ _
_ _ [Gm] _ _ _ [C] _ _ [Bb] _
_ [C] _ _ _ [G] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Etc.
And you'll start to [N] try and think about the sounds that you're creating.
Change between minor and minor.
A minor to E minor shapes.
And major to major. _ _
E major to A major shapes.
Create the rhythmic groove.
And just doing that is a really, really good practice routine.
You're getting your ears used to the sound and the difference between major and minor chords.
You're developing rhythmic groove and feel.
And you're practicing the chord changing between the chord shapes.
All in one lesson.
You can do an awful lot of things with barre chords that you can't do with open chords.
Open chords are obviously very useful.
But one is you can play on any key if you're checking out the barre chord lesson and E and A shape barre chords.
That will help.
But the other thing that you can do is on not only [Dm] this groove, _ you [Dbm] can slide into [Dm] chords. _ _ _
[Dm] _ _ On the [Ebm] barre chord.
[Dm] _ _ _
[Db] _ [Dm] And _ [G] obviously if you slide into every single chord or you _ mute every single chord, it sounds as predictable as if you don't.
But if you mix it all up in a chord sequence, so you're getting [Ab] sort of [Am] a_ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [Am] _ _
_ _ [Dm] _ _ _ [Ebm] _ [Dm] _ _
_ [N] You can groove away endlessly like that and eventually it will become part of your plan.
_ When you want to do it, it will just happen naturally.
So it's a good way to practice barre chords.
_ Start with major and minors and then move on _ to_
Again, you can check out the lessons on this.
Move on to the major, minor and dominant 7 barre chords.
And so on.
And practice that sort of thing.
It's a good little exercise to practice any chord shape up and down the neck.
A bit of rhythmic groove in there.
A bit of oral training as well, which is very important.
So I hope you