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http://www.justinguitar.com/en/CH-006-BasicBarres.php
Best advice I've seen for barres. Just getting the technique down right is the biggest help. For the 7th and minor chords, you just need to make sure that your barre is solid and going across all 6 strings. That's actually how I started with them is to make sure that my barre can press all 6 strings. Anyway, just look at this site and I think it should help at least a little.
Hey all,
I recently bought a baritone ukulele off of craigslist for $50.00, and the lowest string (D) will not stay in tune. I can bring all 4 strings to tune, and if I let it sit for a while (or play it for a while) the D string ends up falling to about a Bb, which makes everything sound downright awful. Any idea what's wrong and how I could fix it? Preferably, I'd like to just make the tuning peg harder to turn so that it stays in tune, but I'm now sure how to do that or if it even can be done. Thanks
Hey all,
I know that a lot of people on the forums tend to ask for help with "How can I do barre chords?" Well, I found this website that has a nice compilation of videos for E and A shape barres. It takes a very slow, step by step procedure on how to start doing it. I strongly recommend not skipping ahead in the videos though, there are plenty of small things that help a lot.
With that are barre chords easier to play on an electric? Harder? Or the same?
Little back round I am in the market for an electric, but in the mean time my G-pa gave he him old acoustic guitar to start piddling with, starting to learn chords and what not.
So in short my goal is to play electric.
O.o
I just tried an electric for the first time recently, and let me tell you it is a MILLION times easier. I can get all six strings ringing out clearly with no effort on an electric, but I still struggle with F#m on acoustic. That being said, even if you want to play electric, don't avoid your acoustic. It will really strengthen your fingers and you'll be a better electric player because of your acoustic experience. Especially if you are just starting, barres will be hard on electric too. For the time it takes you to learn it on electric, afterwards, you probably won't be able to play it on acoustic, whereas if you learn it on acoustic, electric should be no problem.
Probably the best resource I've found
Hey reddevil,
If I'm reading you're question correctly, you're asking for the G, C, and D barre chord shapes? If that's the case, just finger the open version of the chord with your 2nd, 3rd, and 4th fingers, and then when you move up a fret, barre any of the open strings with your first finger. It should look like this:
C shape
e - 1
B -2
G -1
D -3
A -4
E -x
D shape
e -3
B -4
G -2
D -1
A -1
E -x
G shape
e -4
B -1
G -1
D -1
A -2
E -3
Let it be known that I can in no way play any of these in rhythm and I can barely play the G barre at all, lol. If you haven't mastered the A and E shape barres, I recommend doing those first.
Hope this helped!
Hey all,
I've somewhat recently made a more categorized routine for my practice schedule where I work on specific techniques or chords or something each day. One of the things I practice is hammer-ons and pull-offs. Hammer-ons I've become quite good at, but I'm still not satisfied with my pull-offs. My routine goes as follows (for those interested in adding something to their own practice):
Pull-off with 1st and 2nd fingers on each string, high e to low E and back again
Pull-off with 1st and 3rd fingers on each string, high e to low E and back again
Pull-off with 1st and 4th fingers on each string, high e to low E and back again
Pull-off with 2nd and 3rd fingers on each string, high e to low E and back again
Pull-off with 2nd and 4th fingers on each string, high e to low E and back again
Pull-off with 3rd and 4th fingers on each string, high e to low E and back again
Pull-off with 1st, 2nd and 3rd fingers on each string, high e to low E and back again
Pull-off with 1st, 2nd and 4th fingers on each string, high e to low E and back again
Pull-off with 1st, 3rd and 4th fingers on each string, high e to low E and back again
Pull-off with 2nd, 3rd and 4th fingers on each string, high e to low E and back again
Pull-off with 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th fingers on each string, high e to low E and back again
I do the same pattern with hammer-ons. Anyway, here's my actual question. Can anyone tell me what you're actually supposed to do with your fingers when you pull-off? I've seen suggestions to just pull straight off of the string very quickly and I've seen others say that you should kind of pluck the string or 'flick-off'. I've had some successes and some failures with both techniques. With pulling straight off, I often don't get a very clear second note (it's very soft). With the flick-offs, it will often sound like I'm just plucking the string, which ruins the pull-off. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Hmmm... I don't recognize what you mean by plucks. Is that like fingerpicking?
Jerome,
One the scales, do you follow a particular regemin? Do you work through chord patterns in a scale, go in order, do a pattern that has you get through the scale in every possible order? Any books or site resources that may be useful for arpeggio and scale exercises?
Hey Zurf,
Somebody posted a link to this site a couple days ago and I've been looking through some of the stuff there. I just found this lesson earlier today and thought you might like it. It's only the minor pentatonic scale, but it could be applied to any scale.
I'd try the some of the other stuff from Unplugged. Alice in Chains unplugged is great, Pearl Jam works pretty well. Just about anything that isn't power chords seems to translate pretty well. But don't listen to me. Try every song you like and let us know the results!
Great suggestions etc! I used to go to a similar website called www.nextlevelguitar.com They have a lot of videos too and USED to have 100's of free videos that taught you how to play entire songs, but they revently ran into some legal problems with that I think and had to take those down. Still a good place to check out though.
wormproof101 wrote:I'm from the US, Ohio actually
I'm from Ohio too, what part?
Originally the Medina area, but now I go to OSU in columbus. But, I'll be done with that in about a year (i hope) and then I have no idea where I'll be
Yeah, I seem to have that problem too. All the rest of my knuckles bend more than my ring finger. However, I'm just starting to play, so I assume it'll get better with time, or I'll figure out another option (like the pinky). If you can do the barre with your pinky, I don't think there's any roadblocks to your progress. There may be some embellishments that you're missing out on, but if there's one thing I know about guitar (and I don't know much), there's always another way to do something. You could try a different barre shape (C or G most likely), but it sounds like you'll do just fine if you can play it with your pinky.
Everyone's different, so the best way can change from one person to another. I agree with what other people have said about playing with other people and playing songs you know. Aside from that, I also recommend learning some music theory. You don't have to go to college or anything for it, but learn how scales are constructed and how chords are made from them. Aside from being pretty interesting, it can really help you find out how to make chords that you don't know and really understand what 'sus2' 'maj7' '+5' 'o7' and all the other crazy chords you'll undoubtedly run into! Once you start a little bit on this, you can think about it when you're not playing guitar, which really helps you practice all day everyday
You know what, I think I answered my own question. If anybody ever has questions about something like this, I recommend youtube! Just watch either the person playing or a cover and you can usually get a good idea.
Hey all,
I tried posting this in the song requests section of the forums, but it didn't really look like it fit in there.
I can play the fingerpicking part to The Wind by Cat Stevens (the only song I can fingerpick), and have checked several tabs to see how to play the chorus. I've got the chords down, but so far, I can't figure out the rhythm, or how many times to strum each chord, or just about anything with the chorus. I'll probably just keep trying different things and listening to the song, but I thought I'd ask if anyone knew how to play the chorus and had any advice they could offer.
Thanks
Never heard it before, but a Google search turned up Traffic - Here Comes a Man
Hey all,
I can play the fingerpicking part to The Wind by Cat Stevens, and have checked several tabs to see how to play the chorus. So far though, I can't figure out the rhythm, or how many times to strum each chord, or something with the chorus. I'll probably just keep trying different things and listening to the song, but I thought I'd ask if anyone had any advice they could offer.
Thanks
For Knockin on Heaven's Door by Eric Clapton, I usually play D _ _ _ D U D _ in kind of a swing pattern. It's good to mix it up a bit though, and I usually play a bass note or something on the second beat, sometimes I'll hit a few strings at the end of the measure, etc. That's a good place to start, but don't get caught up with it. Just about all eight note patterns are interchangeable and still sound good.
Well, it's definitely not slow or easy, but is there a more fitting song than 'I'll Have to Say I Love You in a Song'....I think not!
I'm 22, started about 5 months ago. Regarding the learning music in school issue, we had the option of joining band in 4th grade (about 10 years old), but the instruments were limited to brass, woodwind, and percussion. I played trombone, liked it at first, but grew bored of it (not the 'coolest' instrument out there). Probably because it was a class and I 'had' to do it. Later on, my great grandmother passed away and left us an electric organ. I played that and enjoyed it. About 3 years ago i started playing harmonica because I was bored, and then I started playing guitar because it's easier to find music for guitar than harmonica. I'm actually surprised that the members of chordie are as old as they are (no offense, lol). I thought I was too old to really take advantage of playing a great instrument like guitar, but I can see from everyone else that I might be OK! (although the people that have been playing for 30 years or so make me a little nervous)
Hey all,
One of my biggest inspirations to attempt to learn guitar was Jim Croce. I was fortunate enough to find a cassette tape of him as a kid and always loved his music ever since. For a long time my favorite song of his was New York's Not my Home, followed closely by Lover's Cross and then his more famous songs (Time in a Bottle, I'll Have to Say I Love you in a Song, Operator, Photographs and Memories, etc). Anyway, I bought a Jim Croce songbook at my local guitar shoppe and one of the songs was called Age. I had never heard of it, and after a bit of searching I was able to at least hear a cover of it (I've since found the actual recording, which perhaps I will try to make a tribute video for) Here is the cover
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jrkDu3FMbQ
I'm hoping by posting this that some of the younger folks (or older folks) that may have never heard Jim Croce get the opportunity to do so and REALLY listen to his lyrics. One of the reasons I don't care for most of the music out today is that the lyrics don't seem to be inspired or mean anything. Songs used to tell stories about the singer or invoke some real emotion, and I just haven't seen that for at least 10 years. Just for the hell of it, here are a few of the other songs I mentioned (I tried to avoid covers, but had a tough time. Most of the covers I picked are really good tho)
New York's Not my Home (cover) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wp_Dc-e5HY
Lover's Cross - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YztRcNLndHQ
Operator (actual video of Jim!) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2iS8XctJKo
Time in a Bottle (cover) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSp0PEBuzEc
Photographs and Memories (cover) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1hkwmNV-gs
I'll Have to Say I Love you in a Song - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pi4DSslE5g
It was kind of a big post, but as Jim would say, "If you dig it, do it. And if you really dig it, do it twice." 
I have some that I started but never finished
That sounds like a good idea for a song in itself:)
Well, sounds like you got a reply you enjoy, but if it's still a little tough, I usually play D/C as
e - 2
B - 4
G - 1
D - x (or o)
A - 3
E - x
It usually depends on which chord you're going there from. In this case it appears you're going from a D, so the pinky is probably the better choice, unless you remember to finger D the other way when you first go to it.
If you want to practice, Jim Croce's "Time in a Bottle" uses Dm and D for the majority of the song and the bass line descends from regular D, to D/C#, to D/C, to D/B, etc. (fingerpicking) It doesn't hurt that it's a great song either 
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