Chupa Chups asked:


Preferably using the chords E,A,D or if not using few chords. 10 POINTS BEST ANSWER

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victorbusta5 asked:


i am a beginner and just started learning how to play the guitar………..i know the majors chords but i dont know how to strum ……i am teaching myself and would like some help…….can one please write and show me strumming patterns that i could learn???……..and also can anyone explain to me how to know or guess the strumming patterns of songs???

thanks

Scott Anderson asked:




Learning how to play bar chords can really open up your ability to play any song on the guitar. If you can master four basic shapes, and get familiar with the note names on the low E string, then you will be well on your way to becoming an all-around, go-to guitarist.

What Are Bar Chords?

A bar chord is a chord that uses a bar (one finger laid across all the strings at a single fret). Note that 99% of bar chords will have other notes fretted as well. It’s a bit like using your index finger as a built in capo – in fact it is exactly like that.

The really cool thing about bar chords is that they can easily be moved up and down the neck (in more theoretical terms, transposed).

I’ll throw out an example for people who are new to bar chords.

Take a regular old E major chord. The one that looks like this:

e—–0–

B—–0–

G—–1–

D—–2–

A—–2–

E—–0–

Now, most beginning guitarists will finger this with their index, middle, and ring fingers. But we need to re-finger it so that the index finger is free to do the bar.

Lay your index finger behind the nut and pretend you are actually fretting the nut. I have to give credit to one of my students for discovering this. It really works well.

Alright, now take that whole E major shape and move it up the next. You might think that it’s easiest to only move up one fret, but it’s not, because it requires the most pressure from the hand. I suggest moving up so that your index finger is now laid across the fifth fret.

So, you will end up with this:

e—–5–

B—–5–

G—–6–

D—–7–

A—–7–

E—–5–

This is an A chord, because the root is the note A. This type of bar chord has the root on the sixth (low E) string.

Once you understand the principle of taking an open chord and moving it up, there’s really no limit to the number of chords you can learn.

Some other easy open chords to turn into bar chords are:

E minor, E7, Em7, and E7sus4.

You can also do this with chords that have a root on the A string, like:

A, A minor, A7, Am7, Amajor7, and A7sus4.

Remember,

1) Re-finger the chord so the index finger is free.

2) Pretend you are “barring the nut.”

3) Move the shape up.

Good luck learning how to play bar chords on guitar.

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conundrum asked:


What are the factors that make one guitar easier to play than another? I play guitar and I’ve noticed that some guitars are just easier to play. The pick seems to glide through the strings more fluidly and it seems to make a nice sound without much effort on some guitars, but on others it is hard to strum and it just sounds bad. My guitar is like this. I have a Gibson Epiphone and it sounds bad and I have trouble strumming on it. When I play someone else’s guitar or another guitar at a music store, I can play effortlessy. There are other guitars that sound bad and are hard to play, but it always seems like the one that I have is hard to play. Does it have to do with the strings? Does it have to do with how the strings are mounted? I was recently playing my roommate’s Schecter guitar, and the strings felt so firm, yet it was easy to play and it sounded good. I took the strings off of mine and put them on his. So the same strings that were on my bad sounding guitar, sounded good on his.
His guitar was also easier to play. The same exact strings that were on mine were used, yet his guitar was easier for me to play. I must be cursed.