![]() You can if you want, but it will be hard, and the problem with hard for beginners is that it can lead to frustration and giving up before you’ve played your first song, and we don’t want that. You don’t want to start learning on strings which you probably don’t have the strength to press down on. With this analogy in mind, the same goes as with learning bar chords. You’d be better off starting with a really light weight to learn the proper technique and gradually adding the weight on as you build up strength. In either case, your technique will most likely be bad because you are struggling to lift the weight. Some people may be able to do with no problem while others may not even get the weight off the the ground. And there are few variations you can experiment with. Even if you do this little by little every day, you’ll notice huge improvements. This exercise builds muscle memory for each chord shape and its position on the neck. For instance, if you move every note in an F Major Barre Chord up 2 frets from the 1st the 3rd fret, that same shape now lets you play. Having difficulty at first in creating a barre F is normal (discouraging maybe, but normal). When fretting a chord, try taking your fingers off and then back on the guitar neck again with the right shape. The diagrams below show the fingering for a half-barre F major chord. It’s like asking a person who has never lifted weights before to suddenly start lifting 40kg over their head. F Chord 4th Variation: Mid Fingerboard This a good mid fingerboard option. Keep in mind that any chord shape you learn that does not contain any open strings (barre chords) can be moved and used as the same type of chord except under a different root (The note a chord is named after). Lets start the lesson with something relatively easier. Learning to play bar chords will always be a challenge at the start for beginners because they require you to apply quite alot of pressure on the strings, and this can be hard if you are learning on a heavy gauge copper string acoustic guitar. ![]() Learn to Press Bar Chords With Minimal Pain and Suffering ![]()
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