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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.

September 5, 2008 at 7:48 pm | Learn Guitar Chords | 3 comments

3 Responses to “Learn Guitar Barre Chords”

  1. Diminished Guitar Chords | Learn Guitar, on February 3rd, 2009 at 9:17 am Said:

    [...] Another thing to note is that there are no open strings in the chord. This allows you to use the diminished chord shape in the same way as a barre chord.  [...]

  2. Learn Guitar Major and Minor Scales Basics | Learn Guitar, on February 7th, 2009 at 4:22 am Said:

    [...] scale shape is movable up and down the guitar neck, similar to the way a barre chord can be [...]

  3. Learn Guitar, on June 18th, 2009 at 7:50 pm Said:

    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! :)

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