Learn Guitar Barre Chords
Learning guitar barre chords is an essential step along the road to mastering guitar.
Up until now each of your fingers needed to hold down just one string at a time. A barre chord is a chord where one or more of your fingers will hold down more than one string. At first this will be difficult, but with practice it will get easier and easier.
The reason barre chords are used is because they allow you to create movable chord shapes – chords that can be played anywhere on the guitar neck because they have no open strings. Let’s look at some of the more common barre chord shapes more closely so you can fully understand how powerful they are.
I might add that it really takes time to learn barre chords so for beginners out there, do not get frustrated with your first session. Here a list of additional tips – learning barre chords.
Nice tutorial btw. Keep it up!
This post was helpful! I feel like once you learn barre chords you can learn any song. Here’s a good video to learn barre chords, it helped me!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBnS4uhaXAI
Sincerely,
CM
I believe you meant to say “Play E major chord shape with barre on 3rd Fret – G major” not 2nd fret. Thanks.
Additionally, for the A Series Barre Chords, the fingering shown is for the B flat major. The B major would have the barre on the 2nd fret.