Topic: Eb in E shape or Am?
Is this possible to play?
I cant really switch from A shape to E or vice-versa so can anyone help me out here?
- dguyton
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Re: Eb in E shape or Am?
Eb can be played with an A-form barre chord at the 6th fret (bar the 6th fret with the index finger, and make the A chord shape normally 2 frets up), or with an E-form barre at the 11th fret (same idea).
You could also play it as a D-form barred at the first fret, as a C-form barred at the 3rd fret, or as a G-form (ouch that one is hard!) at the 8th fret.
Now that you're thoroughly confused, I'll leave it to someone else to type up the tabs for all that. 
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- alvee33
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Re: Eb in E shape or Am?
You can also play Eb like this
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like a normal D only slide it up a fret and put your pinky on the D string at the 5th fret.
Is anything really made up of zeros and ones??
Re: Eb in E shape or Am?
11th fret on E it is then mate thanks very much for your time!!
5 2007-12-06 19:21:51 (edited by Kahuna 2007-12-06 19:22:28)
- Kahuna
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Re: Eb in E shape or Am?
If you're trying to switch between Eb to A, why not play your A on the 5th fret (barring E shape?) So, when you're barring the 6th fret for your Eb, you can then move your barre to the 5th fret in the E chord shape for the A chord! Very small transition between the two.
scrimmy82 wrote:
Is this possible to play?
I cant really switch from A shape to E or vice-versa so can anyone help me out here?
Re: Eb in E shape or Am?
this is a good time to say PRACTICE YOUR BARRE CHORDS. I know they're hard and frustrating and impossible at times, but once you get them, sharps & flats and sevenths and ninths and minors become very easy--you don't have to learn a bunch of new fingerings, you just slide the shape up or down a fret, or lift a finger.
Re: Eb in E shape or Am?
25Frankster wrote:
this is a good time to say PRACTICE YOUR BARRE CHORDS. I know they're hard and frustrating and impossible at times, but once you get them, sharps & flats and sevenths and ninths and minors become very easy--you don't have to learn a bunch of new fingerings, you just slide the shape up or down a fret, or lift a finger.
Yeah im still learning, not even been playing a year yet but got most barre's in E shampe figured out, its A shape I cant get especially down at the bottom of the fret board where its a bit tighter for finger space.
- upyerkilt
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Re: Eb in E shape or Am?
I find it easier to play it the way Alvee says, just like D# and holding the 5th fret on the G string
Or just do a D# and just play the three strings
Ken
ye get some that are cut out for the job and others just get by from pretending