How to Play an A Major Barre Chord _ Guitar Lessons

OK .

So let's talk about a major .

The first bar cord we'll do .

So , what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna show you two different types of bar cords .

There's many , right ?

But two that I'm gonna show you are based on two open chords .

The first one is E major and then the second one's gonna be a major , right ?

So I'm gonna take E major .

I'm just gonna switch around my finger .

So I have my first finger free .

That's it .

Right ?

And now I'm gonna bring the cord up and I'm gonna use my first finger to what's called bar .

I'm gonna bar all the strings .

I'm gonna press all of those strings plus these .

That's what makes it difficult , right ?

So it was E major and now wherever I move this shape , it's gonna be a new chord .

In this case , we're going to do a major .

So here it is at the fifth Fred , it's a major .

All right .

It looks like a major .

But with a bar .

So here's a major .

That's one way to do it .

The second way is I'm gonna use the A shape .

So I'm just going to adjust a little bit so that I have my first finger free just like before .

And then I'm gonna move that cord out slowly .

Right again .

I'm boring .

Right .

And with this one , I'm gonna move it all the way up here to the 12th fret .

And that's a major .

Now , if you want , you can make it also with your ring finger .

This might be a good time to do that because it's hard to fit all those fingers in .

So here's a major as a bar cord at the 12th , the E type , right ?

You can strum all the strings .

So nowhere is there .

But the A style , let's say a at the 12 right here , you're only strumming from the fifth string down .

Now , there's several ways to accomplish that .

You can just strum from the fifth string down or with the tip of this first finger , you can kind of mute out the six string .

So just barely touch it enough that it doesn't make any sound right .

And this , this will happen for every chord that we do .

Um all the A types .

Now , now , I don't have to be careful .

Right .

So that's two ways to play a major bar court .