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B CHORD - HOW TO IMPROVE YOUR BARRE

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Uploaded by on Jun 25, 2008

INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO - IMPROVE YOUR BARRE CHORD.

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  • Rob, you totally helped me in 21/2 minutes with something I've wasted a couple of hours trying to master from the chord diagrams! I was kind of heading in the direction of using middle, ring & pinky fingers at the 4th fret positio as there was simply no way for me to capture all 3 strings with the pad of my 3rd finger -- I have fairly small/short fingers for a guy & one would have to almost bend the 1st joint backward & have about 1/8-inch of callous on the fleshy part - impossible! Thank you!

  • @bobbytookalook I'm glad to hear it. A lot of folks get upset with me, because they still have problems with it, but it is hard. I'm glad it worked for you.

  • One day I'll make my B chords sound that clean too... time to keep practicing.

  • @JcWongAndCompany Well said.

  • Or you could try an alternate version which is much easier. Just barre the 7th fret with finger 1. Finger 2 goes on the G string on the 8th fret.. Finger 3 goes the A string on the 9th fret and finger 4 goes on the D string on the 9th fret. Or you can switch 2, 3 and 4 around to whatever comfortably suits you. As I said, this is much easier, but if you are going to be playing this right after, say, a G or E, it can be tricky, so you gotta be fast.

  • @sirwilliam0524 This isn't hard Sir WIlliam. There is no need to limit oneself. I have 9 year old children that can play it after a couple of months. People have trouble with it, because they don't apply themselves correctly. It is an often used inversion for the complete guitarist, and I hope to give everyone that will listen an upper hand in obtaining the basics for free.

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  • i absolutly HATE B and F chords but thanks this helped...sorta :)

  • thank you so much i could never really figure out how to make that crisp sound. :)

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  • @D3ltaH3adSh0tz1997 You can say that again! Rob really helped tho -- chord books suck in my opinion -- I never do a D chord the way they say -- I 've always used the pinky & it's a lot easier & simpler to get to D7 for example. That stupid Bmaj was in Jingle Bell Rock I was fooling with -- oh well, back to 3 chord "cowboy" songs ;-)

  • i've been hating barre chords

  • that's some great advice. I can do the chord but not at speed. it's one difficult chord.

  • fuck you b chord

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