Learn How To Play Barre Chords Easily on the Guitar

Introduction To Barre Chords

Here is an introductory lesson on how to play barre chords. Barre chords are the most challenging guitar chords for beginners to learn and this video will help you learn how to play them better.

In the video lesson below, Peter will be demonstrating the proper way to play barre chords. He will first use the G Major Barre Chord as an example.

Some key points to keep in mind when playing barre chords are:

  • Place your other fingers on the appropriate notes  before you place your barre down
  • Keep your barre finger as close to the fret as possible
  • Your thumb placement should be about halfway down the back of the neck and between your index finger and your second finger
  • Adjust the height of your index finger until you find a position that you are most comfortable with and one where none of the strings are muted.

Next, he will teach you 4 important Barre Chord shapes that every beginner should learn. I hope you find this video lesson on Barre Chords helpful.  Please feel free to leave any comments or questions in the comments box below.  Enjoy!

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6 Comments on "Learn How To Play Barre Chords Easily on the Guitar"

  1. linson dcruz on Mon, 19th Nov 2007 4:09 am 

    hi mr. Peter
    thanks for the video lesson about the barre chords. it was very informative and helped me to know more about this.

    i look forward to hav more lessons from you

    take care
    lins

  2. blues guitar scales on Thu, 3rd Apr 2008 10:54 am 

    Hey,

    That’s cool. I’m going to use it with my students. They mostly have problems mixing up the majors, minors, and sevens.

    Peace

  3. stephie on Fri, 24th Sep 2010 2:06 am 

    LESSONS ON BARRE CHORDS
    Thanks for these lessons on Barre Chords. I can now make them sound fairly well. I’d like some lessons on how to move between them.

  4. Antriksh Saxena on Sun, 27th Feb 2011 6:24 am 

    Hey…thanks for the lesson…it really helped me a lot….but one thing i did not understand properly.
    In the video its said that to look for the creases falling on the fingers. I did not understand that part. Could you please elaborate.

  5. renin on Mon, 28th Feb 2011 5:57 am 

    @antriksh

    dude, creases are the joints on the front side(palm) of your finger…he just meant to say that as there is some sort of gap(indentions) created due to these joints,so,the string may not be properly pressed by your index finger.

  6. saman kumara on Thu, 9th Feb 2012 2:22 pm 

    It is very very nice how Peter,s lesson about barre cords , I was struggling so much to get a good sound out from barre cords, thank you very much Peter.

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