Barre Chord Intro

Hey what’s up guys? We do this everyday. You ask and I answer. And don’t forget to subscribe to the channel because it’s the most amazing channel ever and it’s ran by you guys. You’ll be asking and I answer. So we have a question right here by one of the students that says, “Well I don’t understand barre chords.” And the way that barre chords work is actually quite simple. So let me show you guys exactly what’s going on and by the way, this is the live show and she just asked like a minute ago. So we’re going to answer for her. So now check it out. There are two types of barre chords. There are partial barre chords and there’s full barre chord. Partial barre chords or when you take two or more strings. These are all partial bar chords. All in one was two strings and one was five. It doesn’t matter they’re all partial barre chords. And then we have full barre chords which are all six strings. So a common misconception too is that the word barre is actually not spelled bar, barre chords in music is actually spelled barre. All right you do take your finger and you literally barre it all through the instrument. So just check this out. The way that I'm going to play my barre chord, let’s start on something simple like let’s take our A barre chord which is going to be on the 5th fret. So let’s set our first finger and barre it all the way through the all six strings. So now we’re going to go is all strings, 5th fret. Then we take our second finger here. Put our second finger on the third string. By the way the string names are one, two, three, four, five, six starting on the thin string. So we take out second finger which is our middle finger and put that on the third string, 6th fret. Then we take our third finger which our ring finger and put that on the 7th fret, 5th string. And then take our pinky finger and put that on the 7th fret 4th string. And just like that, we now have our barre chord. A great way of thinking of how you are supposed to do it correctly is think of an E chord. We all know our E chord is played like this. [Demonstration] So let’s take that and instead of playing with fingers one, two, and three let’s play with fingers two, three and four. So now that we have this pattern, we’re going to move it up to our 5th fret then put this right here on the 5th fret. So here’s our E on the 1st fret and move up to the 5th and put our barre chord there. Actually your barred chord will fit and then that’s it. We now have our A that’s how the actual barre chord is actually supposed to be created. So the way that works is at this bottom note, this root right here, this bass note is actually the root to the chord. So this is my A barre chord. Now what’s great about barre chords though FTW, is that barre chords are actually movable patterns. So I can take this barre chord and move it up a half step and up and down a half step and keep them going and it’s the movable pattern. So I'm going to move with your A to A#, to B to C, to C# to D, D#, and then E. So that’s the idea of barre chords and there are actually other types of barre chords. This is your normal standard barre chord, a major barre chord. But now if I will make this G major barre chord right here and the reason why this is a G because I'm on my 3rd fret. This is my open E string so let’s go from E, the open string. So let’s go E, F, F#, and then G. So here you are at 3rd fret and there’s where our pattern remember the E? Move it up to 3rd fret and this is my G major barre chord. So the way that it’s going to work is that here’s my G major barre chord. If I want to make this a G minor barre chord, look what I have to do. It’s actually not that difficult. All you’re going to do is just lift up with your middle finger and that’s it. Here we have it. [Demonstration] There’s our barre chord. So now we have this G major and then here’s the G minor, just lifting up our middle finger. [Demonstration] So that’s the idea of barre chords and there you have it. You learned all about partial barre chords, full barre chords, the idea of the root E position of a major barre chords and minor barred chords. But now, there’s also other types of barre chords and that’s—Anything can be a barre chord. This can be a barre chord. [Demonstration] Now, how are these all always wear change? How are these all barre chords? And the way that it works is that a barre chord is just anything that you’re using your first finger or really anything about—makes more sense for your first finger. To learn the barre every string, so it doesn’t matter what pattern your other fingers are playing as long as your first finger is literally covering all the strings here then it’s always, always, always going to be a barre chord. The hardest part about barre chords is having your index cover all the strings and getting a clear sound absolutely. That’s the toughest thing about barre chords. So the toughest thing about barre chords is literally to get every string to sound out and it super difficult. But when you do it, it’s the most amazing thing ever. So keep on trying it. Remember, the trick to win is everyday. And if you need to know if it’s possible to like that you guys have to do it everyday because I do the show everyday and that we learn together so that if you guys need some motivation to learn guitar everyday, all you got to do is just click on the subscribe bottom, and that when I do it then you do it. Every video I upload is another lesson that you learn and that’s it. That’s how you bear you do it everyday. Don’t skip a day. We don’t skip here. That’s how we do guys. So stay well. I hope that answers your questions. 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