That’s because it helps with leverage (basically makes it easier to clamp down on the strings) but also makes it easier to arch your fingers over the strings. However, with barre chords, you really need to keep your thumb at the back. With many chords, you can let your hand and thumb slip around the back of the neck without too much issue. Tips for Playing Barre Chords Keep Your Thumb at the Back of the Neck of the Ukulele If you find playing partial barres easier and they still sound ok (see below), then that’s fine in my book.
#F BAR CHIRD FULL#
It’s true, some chords played as partial barre chords do sound a bit weedy compared to their full barre equivalent, but I say ‘each to their own’. Some purists say that to use partial barres is cheating, and that they don’t sound as good. Slide up the bar, and voila, you get a ton of 6th chords. If you play all open strings, you arrive at a C6 chord (pretty easy, ‘eh). Moved up a few frets, and here we have a D minor chord. We can also barre minor shapes as well, of course. We’ve covered all the major chord shapes, but it doesn’t stop there. Now move it up a two frets, and you have an F# chord. In this case, you just bar three of them. This means you don’t bar ALL four string. The E shape is a bit different, as it’s a partial bar chord. Try playing a C# open chord! You see how easy is it to find obscure chords using this method.
Move it up to wherever you like, let’s go to the fourth fret to get a C#. Move it up a couple of frets, make a barre with your first finger, and you have a G chord. Slide it up another two frets and you have an E chord. Slide it up two frets, make a barre with your index finger, and voila you have a D chord. We’ll look at full and partial barre chords including the most common shapes.
#F BAR CHIRD HOW TO#
The rest of this article is going to be about showing you how to make ukulele barre chords. They let you play up the fretboard of course, which opens up your available palette of tones right off the bat. The third and final reason is, they sound different, and depending on the sound you’re going for, can sound way better than their open chord equivalent. As I said in the intro, knowing them makes you a way more versatile player. When you know barre chords, you can find any given chord at any place on the fretboard, no problem (and you don’t even need a capo). It’s good practice where you can to play chords in the same area of the fretboard. You’ll see examples of all this later on, don’t worry. But once you know your barre chord shapes, you simply take one and move it to the appropriate fret. I’ll probably get a blank look coming back at me. That’s because barre chords are moveable.īeginner chords such as Am, C, F and G are all pretty straightforward to play. There are so many great ukulele songs you can play with basic chords you may rightly be wondering ‘why bother learning barre chords’? Just another thing to learn and get confused about, right?įirst, once you’ve learned all the main barre chord shapes (we’ll cover those later in the article), you can play pretty much any chord. See how my index finger is forming a bar at the top: Here’s an example of a ukulele barre chord. There are full barre and partial barre variations, as we’ll see further down the page.
Keep Your Thumb at the Back of the Neck of the UkuleleĪ barre chord is a special type of chord where you use a finger (usually the index finger, but sometimes multiple fingers) to press across the strings on the uke fretboard, essentially forming a bar.
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