Members LiveMusic Posted February 19, 2006 Members Posted February 19, 2006 Open chords that most people learn to barre up the neck: E, A (majors) become F and Bb at fret 1Em, Am become Fm and Bbm at fret 1 Then there are open chords... C, D, Dm... for instance. Have you learned to make barre chords with these, as well? Like, barred at fret 3 (X65343), C-shape would become Eb. Which is used in some song progressions. You never see these taught in books, just wondering if expert guitarists master these barres, as well.
Members JasmineTea Posted February 19, 2006 Members Posted February 19, 2006 Yep. All open chords can be played as barre chords. You can also take the chords apart and play sections or parts of them as barre chords.
Members LiveMusic Posted February 19, 2006 Author Members Posted February 19, 2006 I easily play E, Em and A, Am shapes as barres and have pretty much mastered playing C-shape as a barre chord. As for D and Dm, I'd have to work on that. Muscle memory sure works! Reason I ask about this is because I was thinking of when songs modulate 1/2 step up... I was thinking what would an expert guitar player do? You don't want to change to fingering when you modulate.
Members kwakatak Posted February 19, 2006 Members Posted February 19, 2006 I enjoy playing the C and G chord shapes as barre chords. They 3 lowest notes are the actual major chord triad which I find to have more melodic possibilities than the A nad E shaped barre chords..
Members pipedwho Posted February 19, 2006 Members Posted February 19, 2006 The open C shaped barre chord is very useful. Open D barre chord is pretty much useless because it is basically the C shape without the top 3 strings. Open Dm is debatable in that it allows all sorts of convenient bass and melody runs from the open fingering which you can't do in the barre form. So of those, open C would be the most widely used - esp for Eb and Db.
Members JasmineTea Posted February 19, 2006 Members Posted February 19, 2006 Originally posted by kwakatak G chord shape Know this one? First number is the fret, second number is the finger: 5-4X2-12-12-1X G-style A. Converts to a D over A quite easily. Also makes a nice 6th if you fret the high string, same fret as those fretted by the 1 finger. I'm sure other players find this or that shape more useful than some other shapes, but I think it's good to know as many as you can reach. There's always a use for them, somewhere.
Members guitarcapo Posted February 20, 2006 Members Posted February 20, 2006 Originally posted by JasmineTea Know this one? First number is the fret, second number is the finger:5-4X2-12-12-1XG-style A. Converts to a D over A quite easily. Also makes a nice 6th if you fret the high string, same fret as those fretted by the 1 finger.I'm sure other players find this or that shape more useful than some other shapes, but I think it's good to know as many as you can reach. There's always a use for them, somewhere. Why is your root note a B natural?
Members JasmineTea Posted February 20, 2006 Members Posted February 20, 2006 5th fret is A. Low string is at the top of the row. Pretty funny if you're reading it the other way around..
Members Cldplytkmn Posted February 20, 2006 Members Posted February 20, 2006 man... all those chords look hard... i don't play hard chords
Members JasmineTea Posted February 20, 2006 Members Posted February 20, 2006 Originally posted by Cldplytkmn man... all those chords look hard... i don't play hard chords There aint any money in hard chords.
Members Cldplytkmn Posted February 20, 2006 Members Posted February 20, 2006 in fact why even play chords anyway... seems like a waste of time when i can just download a song and play it over the PA while holding a guitar and singing
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