EGS Lesson Nine Developing our rock chord library
EGS Lesson Nine Developing our rock chord library
The chord of F introduces a very important technique in chord playing — the barre. A barre is when a finger (usually the first finger) is extended across more than one string, holding more than one string down at a time.
Barre chords are commonly found in all forms of guitar playing and these chords will be discussed more thoroughly from Lesson 11, onwards.
The chord of F requires the first finger to be placed across the first and second strings, holding them both securely. Fingers two and three are then used to play the remaining two notes. F, like C, also has fingers on three different frets.
F undoubtedly causes more problems to guitarists, in their first few months of playing, than any other chord.
Once again, check the position of the thumb and experiment, by raising and lowering it, to find the position which gives you the greatest chance of playing the chord.
Some guitarists play this chord with the thumb half way down the back of the neck, and some play with the thumb hooked over the front of the neck and onto the sixth string. [Look at the position of David's thumb in the video in Exercise 5, below.]
Notice that the first finger, which creates the barre, can extend across to the third string if this feels more comfortable. As there is a finger on the second fret on the third string, this extension will not be heard in the chord.
As with the C chord, practise the following two exercises.
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