Now one of the things that most beginners do is they tend to put all of their weight on the first finger. So you will have this chunk of the second and the third finger, all just kind of leaning under the first finger there.
Kind of like, just like a huge Y script. And you definitely do not want to do that, because the goal is to be able to do the barre with the first finger and still have our second and third fingers available to fret where we need them to fret.
So one of the ways that we can break out of that is we can give our second and third finger kind of a job to do. So let us pick the first string, and then pick the second string holding that barre. And get both of the strings nice and clean.
And then you just want to take a second finger and place it here at the sixth fret of the first string, and still maintain that barre. If it sounds a little dissonant, it is supposed to, it is a flat fret which is a very dissonant, and I just lift up the second finger.
Now we are going to get on third finger out on the action. I am going to place the third finger here on seventh fret of the first string, then pick the first, then the second string. And then lift up the third finger.
Now this exercise seems really simplistic, because it is simplistic by design, and usually the things that get you the most mileage while practicing are very, very simple.
I am going to come down to the barre here at the third fret so I can show you --- you can also use your pinkie.
So I am putting my pinkie here on the sixth fret of the first string while I am barring here on the third fret, the first and the second string.
So with the third finger here on the fifth fret of the fourth string, pick that and slide up to the seventh fret. Then with your first finger you are going to barre the fifth fret on the third finger string.
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Place your third finger on the seventh fret here on the third and second string and you are going to bend both of those notes.
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