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How to Play an F Chord on Guitar
We’re going to look at the F chord. I left this to the end of all the open chords because it gives people the most trouble. And the reason for this is you have to deal with what they call a bar. So in the past I’ve told you to use your fingertips on all the chords. In the case of the F chord, you’re using your first finger to bar. So you flat your fingers flat across two strings at the same. So, you’re playing that first fret on the E string and first fret on the B string. They move through together. So one thing I try to do when people have trouble with the F chord is just try to play those two together with your fingers flat.
So once you can get that, then you add your second finger to the G string, second fret, that’s the E note. That’s three notes for the F chord. And then we add our third finger to the D string on the third fret. And one thing you’ll notice is my hands are kind of slanted and so my finger is sort of pointing towards me more than just straight up and down like this because I find my wrist not to crank too much. So to make it easier for me my thumbs up here and I’ve got an angle on my fingers. That allows me to get the F chord. So if you’re having trouble, try to isolate—usually once you add this finger, you might get that so you’re going to make sure you push down on all three strings.
And then when you add this one the, it tends to take this some of the weight off for the other fingers. So, that’s the trick that I’ve come up with for F chord. And don’t worry like everybody has trouble with the F, it’s common and you’re not alone so just keep trying it, keep working at it and sooner or later you’ll get that and you just going keep working on it all right. So give that a try and good luck.
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