Yeah that's right every barre chord has been derived like a formula from a theory of music . And these chords are sewn on your fret board such that you can find each and every barre chord very easily .For those of you who know some barre chord this article will be a deep study of barre chords . But the beginners can also start their journey into the world of barre chord from here . So without wasting anymore time .
Basic Music Theory
The visitors who are following my blog may have read my previous article Memorize Your Guitar Fret Board & Basic Music Theory. So I'll be really quick on this this time cause we probably gonna need this theory in our barre chord campaign .
For this lesson you just need to remember the seven notes in music7 natural notes : Sa Re Ga Ma Pa Dha Ni Sa
If we see this in english the 7 notes are : A B C D E F G A
For more details about music theory follow the link :
If we see this in english the 7 notes are : A B C D E F G A
For more details about music theory follow the link :
The Barre Chord Theory
There are mainly two types of barre chords around the neck of your guitar which you can play very easily . They are :
1. 'A' Barre chord (barre chords following the A major pattern)
2. 'E' Barre chord (barre chords following the E major pattern)
'A' Barre Chord
These are the barre chord which follow a 'A' major pattern . As
every barre chord is played by barring a fret and playing 'A' major .
Here's an Example :
An Open A major Chord
Now , If we remember the Basic Music Theory then after A the note that follows is B . Thus , a 'B' major chord is played by barring the 2nd fret and then playing 'A' major on 4th fret .
So if we see the notes with sharps it is :
As you can see after B there is no sharp(#) thus we will move the pattern above only one fret .
Yeah this is that simple . Just hold the 'B' major chord above and follow the notes shifting the pattern one fret . And here's the result :
B major barre chord
After this we just have to move this pattern down the neck to find our chords . But as we know there are also sharps(#) and flats(b) in between these notes thus we move this pattern two frets to find another major chord and if we want the sharps and flats we just move this pattern one fret.
So if we see the notes with sharps it is :
A A# B C C# D D# E F F# G G# A
Yeah this is that simple . Just hold the 'B' major chord above and follow the notes shifting the pattern one fret . And here's the result :
Likewise if we change this pattern and replace A major with Am then we get the minors for every chord like for
C major to make Cm :
Here we just changed the A major shape with Am on 3rd fret .
'E' Barre Chord
Similar to the 'A' barre chord E major chord can be applied with the same concept . Here I'm just giving the chart :
Similar like the A major if you play Em on a bar then you can make out the chords Am , Bm etc .
So hope you enjoyed reading this article on the Barre chord. Stay tuned to Amit Les Paul for more of guitar information and guitar chords .
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