Defontaine

14 minutes ago, ezbass said:

Bar chords are the bane of every new guitar player’s progression. Understandably so too, what other activity requires you to have that kind of strength in a straight index finger?  As Dad says, practise bar chords further up the neck and work down to the lower positions as your finger strength progresses, that first position F bar chords will come along eventually.  In the meantime, use a simpler fingering using all four fingers or a 2 string ‘mini barre’ on the first 2 strings (I prefer all 4).

 

Yeah that's some sound advise, another thing when learning bar chords that i found really difficult was the way you position your hand to make the bar, it totally changes the position of your thumb on the neck , and i kept finding myself reverting back to the old way out of habit, bar chords are important aspect of guitar playing so i guess i'll just have to knuckle down.

33 minutes ago, ezbass said:

In the figure for F major, the index finger bars across all the strings whilst the other three fingers make a E shape chord. This is the same as putting your capo on the first fret and fingering an E. The barred F chord is probably the hardest to master when starting out, although the barred Bb isn’t much easier TBH (index bar at the first fret and the remaining fingers making an A shape. The Bb often omits the barre to make the things easier, with the 6th & 5th strings not being played).

Thank You Ez

I'm getting there...Slowly

Thanks Dad for taking the time to explain all that, i shall be referring back to your comment regularly as i progress, maybe i should have learnt how to play bar chords! I did start to, but my fingers simply wouldn't go where they should and it effected my enthusiasm. Your comment pretty much answered all the questions i had and i'm grateful.

Much Appreciated

HI everyone,

So, i decided for once in my life i would actually stick something out for a change, I've been playing electric guitar for about 5 months now, and I'm really enjoying it, So far, I have however, hit a wall over something it don't really understand and I'm hoping to get the answer from some people with more experience that myself, i have a chordify subscription and play along with the rolling notes that appear, i play with a capo, the problem I'm having is understanding certain notes displayed, i don't have a problem with the normal notes and if the song isn't simple enough i simply move the capo until it's playable again, but in some songs a note appears that i don't understand, i will insert a picture of what i mean and hopefully someone with more experience can explain it. It's the one's with the bar that i don't understand.