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Location: Kent, England | ...then of course you could get really lazy and play the A chord with just the first finger barred across the three notes not playing the high E string (00111x).
It all depends on just how quickly you need to either get to or hold that chord for. Also it depends on whether you're playing accoustic or electric...or even power chords?
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | A lot of bluegrass songs jump from G to F (mixolodian) so to play rythym and lead the F almost has to be played as cruster has shown as you play the G two frets up and jump from there without changing your hand position. If a lead is involved the thumb on the low E and the 4th finger on the D completes the fake bar (3d finger on the A)
Another country bluegrass trick is the G F D chord progression that Merle Haggard used a few times and always sounds good if done right.
For example i "Fireball Mail"
She's G gone F gone D gone, G the fireball Mail.
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Location: Warrenton, Virginia | Tim
Thanks. Great chord site! |
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Location: Waurika OK | I also do the "thumb thang" and make no apologies for so doing. Unless I missed someones notation, I do one thing different.
0|||00 thumb on E, index finger on B E
|||0|| middle finger
|00||| third finger on A, little finger on D
This gives the full, correct notes of a barre chord at any fret and it is easy to make the minor of any chord also.
0||000
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Woody, thought I was the only one that made A chord as you do! And for the same reason.
Also I play D:
xx|231
rather than:
xx|132
and for the same reason, chord changes seemed easier.
While I am throwing out trashy chords, might as well do this one.
B minor
xx|||0 index finger
______ second fret
xx||0| middle finger
______ third fret
xx00|| third finger on D little finger on G
______ fourth fret
move up one fret and you have Cminor and so on up the neck.
I know the real guitar players are gagging and throwing up by now so I will quit
noel
ps After I posterd this I discoveerd I had missed page two, so a lot of what I said had already been covered, sorry. |
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Location: Fayetteville, NC | That's a great lesson! The best part is it didn't cost a Red Cent!! The link to the website is still a great tool as well. |
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That F-ing chord thing
