Major Bar Chord Shapes - Rhythm Guitar Lesson #5

[@MusoraOfficial]

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[@rmukweyi]

Mr. Savage, these videos are the best. Your explanation, about the lowest note being the name of the chord, and learning both types of bar chords for efficiency, literally just turned on a huge lightbulb in my head. thank you so much for posting these lessons.

[@MusoraOfficial]

Awesome! You're welcome. :)

[@k6hel]

Hey, i just want to say you're lessons are the best. With each series i watch, i have learned alot of it and turned on my lightbulb. Keep doing this great tutorials they can help alot. Thanks.

[@F1MechNoah]

Im a long time rythem guitar player at my church and Ive been changing up playing style a little bit. Thank you so much for taking the time in these videos to really explain how to shape these chords for beginners.

[@rico1dennie704]

The light just came on Brother! 🙏

[@scottallen8861]

Super insightful and well made. I learnt my F bar and wasn't sure how the other's translated. Your explanation of the root notes with both the bar and power chords has really helped me understand how it all fits together. Cheers!

[@MusoraOfficial]

+Scott Allen Thanks!

[@chords123]

great explanation!! 👏

[@gonsalomon]

A tip for those whose barre chords sound dull or kinda feaf: try your index finger not to lay flat on the strings, but a little inclined, in a diagonal fashion instead of parallel to the fretboard. A friend taught me that and I've never muted a string since that. Hope you find it useful!

[@johnkondrk1382]

excellent work Nate

[@gonsalomon]

On dropped tunings, power chords are just a barre on any fret, and if you tune your 3rd string to a 2nd of your 4th strind or a 9th of your 6th string, you can put your middle finger a fret above your barre at the 4th string for a minor chord. Use your ring finger on the 2nd fret above the barre to make a major chord. Then you can use ir just in air (like in E the 1st and 2nd strings are) with the barre for a sus2, or use your pinky to use the 3rd fret above the barre on the 3rd string for a sus4. Hope more people start using this way of tuning!

[@kishoregopalghosal3456]

Excellent way of teaching.👌👌

[@wihiayoub3849]

thank you so much brother and god bless you

[@Friek555]

I love this channel!

[@gkp76]

So much makes more sense now

[@GuiyouGirlcp]

Great lesson! Very helpful. :)

[@JoeDoe2]

As a beginner, I can say that it's a struggle just to do what you did at 6:40, which is to raise the right hand back up and know exactly where to put your pick in mid air to avoid the 6th string, without looking at it. As simple as this may seem to the advanced player, I can assure you that a formal lesson of exercises on how to practice hitting each of the six strings from any of the other strings, or after a full strum, without looking, would save a lot of time and frustration. I also wish someone would do a lesson on how to practice avoiding certain stings when strumming, both on the downstroke and the upstroke. This includes something as difficult as avoiding both strings 1 and 6. (the two E strings) which requires you to strum the inner 4 strings, a seemingly impossibility to the beginner. P.S. - I'm assuming that the same two barre shapes, moved around on the neck, can me used for any I-IV-V progression, not just G-C-D. As of now, I don't know why they couldn't.

[@lordjubei9829]

Question , I am really really efficient with barre chords but my only problem is the fatty part of my hand in between my thumb and index finger starts to hurt really bad

[@L77kim77l]

Didn't know Manuel Neuer is such a good guitar teacher...

[@marquesmoss5283]

Question is it bad if I use my pinkie to bar on the three strings instead of my ring finger? my pinkie isn't as strong but its more flexible and sounds cleaner.

[@MusoraOfficial]

marques moss If it works for you go for it. That's the first I've heard or seen anyone do that though. Cool. :)

[@vasudevchakravarti4310]

the pinkie is actually very strong, so if you can use it it's fine

[@alexvidu4517]

Winner of a video, been searching for "purpose major scale" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you heard people talk about - Vonizabeth Strumming Magnitude - (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now ) ? Ive heard some unbelievable things about it and my work buddy got great success with it.

[@deargodwhyamihere]

I do that too! I took a lesson from a guitarist in New Orleans and that’s what he told me to do and it made it so much easier.

[@maxbasumatary7935]

Is it good to keep my bar finger at it's place, I mean the same as E string while switching to A string from E?

[@MusoraOfficial]

+Max Basumatary Typically, yes.

[@maxbasumatary7935]

+GuitarLessons.com Thanks.

[@shubhpov]

Sir, i wanna know which jam track do you use in your videos. i can't find that anything. is there any specific name for that so that i can download it and use it while practicing. 😊

[@kevinpaz1055]

What are some techniques could we do to make the bar chord that uses the index and the ring finger (ouch)

[@MusoraOfficial]

+Clayton Paz Check out this series: www.GuitarLessons.com/m/bar-chords

[@MarbleClouds]

what should one do if their strings twang.

[@sumit9373]

query : I didn't get why u used the d chord differently, need help in reading tabs also

[@MusoraOfficial]

This is a bar chord. It's an alternative way to play chords that every guitar player should learn. You can learn about tabs here: www.guitarlessons.com/blog/guides/how-to-read-guitar-tabs/

[@shettykp]

U R Awesum !!! Tnx a lot :))))))))))))))))))))

[@MusoraOfficial]

+shettykp You're welcome. :)

[@jersonatilo9190]

Still having trouble with the A string.

[@topmcs]

Is it bad that bar the 3 strings with my pinky?

[@MusoraOfficial]

+Topaze MCs Nope, that works. Try and learn the other methods too.

[@Sosoismyname]

hmm it is quite hard to reach all fingers on the strings like this, but nice lessons!

[@stoia3218]

omg Light bulb moment

[@rjsaifulislam2215]

sir how to get your dram metronome. ....

[@MusoraOfficial]

I'm sorry I don't fully understand your question.

[@JoeDoe2]

I don't understand why a guitarist wouldn't want to get into the habit of always barring all the way across, including the 6th string (low E string) , even if they're doing a 5th string based barre chord. As demonstrated, when going back and forth quickly between a 6th string based barred chord and a 5th string based barre chord, the index finger has to be left down, all the way across, including the 6th string, even though you aren't strumming the 6th string. Sliding the index finger up and down vertically to include or not include the 6th string when changing between those two types of barre chords isn't practical. So why not always barre all the way across, requiring less thinking while playing? Otherwise, you'd have to be constantly looking and thinking ahead and asking yourself "Is my next chord in the progression going to need me to barre across the 6th string? If so, I'll go ahead and put it down now when I don't really need to yet. If not, I'll just barre across the 5th string and stay off the 6th." (5th string = A, 6th string = E). Is this increased level of thinking something that has become natural to you over the years, such that you aren't even thinking about how far to barre based on which chords you know are coming next, it's just automatic?

[@SpoonMan90s]

Oh, no... enough with bar chords for today...

[@SheepDog1513]

Um, hey mister man.... how in the heck do I stuff all of these sausage fingers of mine onto a single fret?

[@bertinernie31]

Michael Carter stretch em

[@oscargarciahinde4247]

Argh, I can't for the life of me do that alternate form for the A major shape bar chord... my finger just doesn't like to bend like that.

[@MusoraOfficial]

It's a tough one for sure. Just keep working at it. You'll get it down. :)