How to play different chords

these are some of the hardest ones too master,I think almost all players have a problem with them.I did and it took alot of practice too get them down. Just keep trying and practiceing them .  dino48

What upyerkilt writes is fantastic. Even so called basic chord, take B, you can play that chord like he wrote, also in barré on the 7th fret, with one finger covering the strings, and the chord used with a finger position=to E.
Practise is one thing, a great help can be achieved, trying to play-a-long, with a song on CD. It worked a lot for me. You HAVE to practise too, changing fast your finger position.

If you like to see the chords and finger positions, you will find a lot. Google guitar chords, and you will be surprised. Example: www.chordbook.com. This shows you a lot of chords, DON'T panic, I would be real surprised if a human being can play all chords. Start with the basic chords, A B  C  D  E  F  G, and followed  by minor chords Am  Bm  Cm Em Fm .. a lot of chords aren't
easy at all, and add on top of it "septime" chords; like E7  B7.... Here you will find akk you need.

Beautiful Scrimmy.  I will give that a go.  I'll have to learn chords all over again, but so be it.  Life's too short not to play barre chords.

- Zurf

Ding!  Winner.

For the most part, you should be within three frets of any chord, no matter where you are on the fretboard.  All you gotta do is find 'em.

l-2----
l-4---
l-4---
l-4--
l-x---
l-x---    thats one way to play B

l-2-
l-3-
l-4-
l-0-
l-x-
l-x-   Bm

l-1-                       l-1
l-1-                       l-1
l-2-                       l-2
l-3-               OR   l-3
l-x-                       l-3
l-x-                       l-x                   F

If you cant get the barre versions those work, but you have to not play the bottom few strings...

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On Chordie there is a large chord chart.
To find it go to recources and in the menu and ''A large chord chart'' is the first option.

It really is just a matter of practice.
If I'm playing a mixture of open chords and barre chords I find it faster/easier to use a short barre with the forefinger and the thumb barring the low strings.
If you're playing purely barre chords it's probably easier using a full barre
Some people tend to press too hard when playing barre chords which makes playing more difficult as their hand become too tense.
I agree with alvee33 about open chords on an acoustic but some chords really have to be played as barres.
Try playing the root 5 barre major chords with your ring finger holding down the B G & D strings. At first you'll probably mute the top E string but with practice you'll hopefully be able to bend your finger just enough to clear the top E enabling it to ring.
If you're just strumming I doubt that many people would notice that you're muting top E so long as the other strings are ringing reasonably clearly.
Root 6 barre major chords are played using the E chord shape which hopefully won't be too difficult.
Root 5 barre minor chords also use the E chord shape.
As an exercise try playing a G barre chord then changing to a C barre chord.
Place your forefinger over all of the stings on the third fret and play an E chord directly below the barre - middle finger on the 4th (G) string, 4th fret, ring finger on 2nd (A) string, 5th fret and little finger on 3rd (D) string, 5th fret.
To change to C keep the G barre shape in place then simply flatten the ring finger to cover the 4th, 3rd & 2nd strings lifting the little finger out of the way at the same time (this may naturally happen as you flatten your ring finger).
Use a bit of a rocking action between the two shapes and keep repeating slowly until it feels comfortable and natural.
Once you have mastered the change you can try muting the 6th string by slightly lifting or moving your barring forefinger. Don't worry about this until you've mastered the change.
I hope this makes sense. It's difficult to explain in words.
Don't worry if the chords sound muffled at first, with practice they'll soon start to ring.