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Here's my $0.02: Learn barre chords straight away. Don't waste your time learning all the open chord songs you can before you jump in. Jump right into it. Open
by H1Supreme 9y ago
Here's my $0.02: Learn barre chords straight away. Don't waste your time learning all the open chord songs you can before you jump in. Jump right into it. Open chords will be easy down the road.
Training your hand to barre strings with one finger, while moving the rest independently, is the most challenging, and the most rewarding thing to learn. It opens up so many doors to your playing.
- otterpro 9y agoWow, I wish I had known before I started learning. Moving up and down the fret with barre chord is cool and easy once it is mastered. However, Barre chord is also the hard to learn to play, requiring a lot of finger contortion, and also probably most painful for players as the finger presses down on all 6 strings. A lot of beginners either skip or avoid barre like the plague. I've found that it is easier to do barre on either light string and/or electric guitar.
- beat 9y agoI hardly ever play full barre chords. I can, but I don't. (I was subjected to practicing all the CAGED chord shapes as barres in circle of fifths up the neck, which is great for the hands and the brain.) I don't like the sound of six-string chords generally. So I mostly chord two or three strings at a time, and move what's getting picked from strum to strum to mix the low and high notes. It's much more dynamic and interesting, and sounds a lot less cluttered. But that's me. The result is that my barres are lazy. Since I'm only trying to get three notes at most to ring clearly at once, I'm just muting the rest, which is a lot less effort. Muting technique is everything!