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Unread post by slapman24 » Tue Jan 21, 2003 1:22 pm

no i'm serious.. get those callices and then you'll be playin alll niight and getting chicks all the time.. man guitar is a beautiful thing.. playing dave is BETTER :o
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Unread post by lowtech411 » Tue Jan 21, 2003 8:16 pm

When I was just starting, technically I still am, I had a hard time with barre chords but you will get it eventually. One thing that I noticed was that with 'open' chords I usually cradled the guitar between my thumb and pointer but when I went to do a barre chord I placed my thumb directly behind the neck using it to push the neck to the fretting fingers. I heard someone term this as a "Strong Wrist" position since you have to curl your wrist underneath the neck more as appossed to having your wrist relaxed cradleing the guitar. Tip1: Always fret right behind the fret itself because you will need less pressure to have the note ring out. Tip2: Practice all the barre chords in the 1st couple of frets once you can do those all the other ones will be a piece of cake. Tip3: I liked barre chords because you could get the "XXXXXX" chuck sound real easy, good for complicating rythem patterns. Hope this helps. And I'm spent.
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Unread post by johntherevelator » Tue Jan 21, 2003 10:14 pm

lowtech411 wrote:When I was just starting, technically I still am, I had a hard time with barre chords but you will get it eventually. One thing that I noticed was that with 'open' chords I usually cradled the guitar between my thumb and pointer but when I went to do a barre chord I placed my thumb directly behind the neck using it to push the neck to the fretting fingers. I heard someone term this as a "Strong Wrist" position since you have to curl your wrist underneath the neck more as appossed to having your wrist relaxed cradleing the guitar. Tip1: Always fret right behind the fret itself because you will need less pressure to have the note ring out. Tip2: Practice all the barre chords in the 1st couple of frets once you can do those all the other ones will be a piece of cake. Tip3: I liked barre chords because you could get the "XXXXXX" chuck sound real easy, good for complicating rythem patterns. Hope this helps. And I'm spent.
holy shit
i never realized i was doing that until you mentioned it (the pushing the neck thing)
this changes my entire outlook on life!
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Unread post by lowtech411 » Tue Jan 21, 2003 11:17 pm

Yah I've seen people try to play barre chords with out that extra support and they just end up muting half the chord.
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