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Hello my friends.

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Hope this finds you well and happy.

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Welcome to Master Your Barre Chords Part 3,

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where we're going to be talking [br]about A shaped barre chords.

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I'm a little gutted because[br]I just filmed four lessons

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with my new little lapel microphone[br]to increase the sound quality,

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and I forgot to turn it on, so now[br]I have to do them all again, don't you just love that?

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Anyway, so, before we get into [br]doing these A shaped barre chords,

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it's really important that you mastered properly[br]your E shaped barre chords.

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The most important reason is the fact that [br]this muscle here,

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in between your first finger and your thumb,[br]needs to get nice and strong.

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So, make sure you do a little bit of work

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with some songs using those E shaped[br]and A shaped barre chords.

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The other songs that I will have to do again now,[br]are Times Like These by Jack Johnson,

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which uses E shape barre chords,

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as well as a really funky [br]rhythm guitar pattern with this click thing.

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And also Day Tripper by The Beatles.

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I'll redo those lessons as soon as I can,[br]but I'm not sure if I'll have time

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to do them in this session now.

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So, but I figured the A-shaped [br]barre chord is kind of more important.

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So, let's get straight into checking out[br]our A shaped barre chords.

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But you've either learnt to [br]play your A chord like this,

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with all three fingers in a line like that,

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or the other method[br]that I talk about on my website,

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where you'd swap 1st and 2nd finger [br]over, and get this little grouping here.

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Either one of those is fine for playing the A chord.

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But neither of them work for a barre chord.

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Now in order to show you this,[br]I'm going to make sure that,

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I'm going to use first this three in a line shape here.

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Now if we were to play a barre chord,[br]of course we can't use our first finger,

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so we take first finger off.

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Second finger moves to where first finger was before,

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third finger moves over again,

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Little finger comes in to where the 3rd finger used to be.

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And there you can see, you have them in a line.

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This is quite a common way for me[br]to play A chord anyway,

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because my fingers are a little bit too fat[br]to fit in the frets there properly.

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So you might want to check this out as another

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alternative way of playing your[br]regular A chord as well.

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Now when we go for a barre chord for that,

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of course the chord shape would then move up, [br]I'll just move it up one fret.

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And then the 1st finger [br]would go down in a barre,

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remembering that it's kind of slightly [br]on the side, which is ok.

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. . .

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In fact it's good.

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Now the most important thing that you [br]can learn just from this so far,

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now this isn't the way that [br]we're going to finish playing the barre chord,

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so don't rush to learn this way just yet.

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But make sure that[br]the tip of your 1st finger here,

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is muting that 6th string.

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It's really like, it's literally the strings[br]sitting on the tip of the finger.

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So this finger's not [br]pressing down on the string,

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it's just touching, it's almost like[br]pushing the string up just a little bit.

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Just enough to make sure it's muted.[br]It's really important,

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because the Root note[br]is the note here on the 5th string.

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So it's really important that [br]we can hear this note,

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that note has got to be one [br]of the clearest in the chord,

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and also remember that wherever we put that note will become the name of our chord.

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So, now, to get [br]this chord shape down properly,

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with these three fingers in a line like that[br]and have the barre going, is quite difficult.

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Also, the barre has to remember,

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would have to touch, would play[br]that note there on the thinnest string as well.

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So little finger would have to be nice [br]and round to keep the thinnest string clear.

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Now, what's actually a lot more common [br]when we play this barre chord shape,

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is to play it like this.

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This 2nd finger here,[br]I'm going to tuck it under there,

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just to make it nice and clear [br]for you to see what I'm doing.

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But of course normally when you're [br]playing it you would leave it out.

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You wouldn't tuck it behind like this.

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So, the 1st finger is not going to change[br]from that other variation that we had,

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which was, it's muting the 6th [br]string, it's playing firmly this note.

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But what's different is now [br]we're using a 3rd finger barre,

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and 1st finger doesn't [br]even actually have to barre.

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Because with our 3rd finger we're [br]playing the note on the 4th string,

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the note on the 3rd string, [br]the note on the 2nd string,

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and then we're kind of lifting [br]our finger away from the fingerboard,

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so that this top [br]string, the thinnest E string,

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is actually muted again, so that [br]both the outside E strings are muted

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for this type of barre chord shape.

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Very, very important.

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So, what's important, what's important?[br]There's lots of things that are important.

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The way that you perform this barre,[br]is making sure that the,

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first of all that the tip of the [br]3rd finger is not touching the 5th string.

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So it's, if the 3rd finger is even[br]just slightly too high like that,

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it'll end up muting the 5th string.

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And you want that note, [br]that's the most important one.

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That's the Root note, so make sure[br]that the tip of that finger

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is not touching the 5th string.

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Now, try and, when you're pressing the barre,

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just as I mentioned for the first finger before,

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try and imagine that your energy is pushing,

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energy, I'm sounding like a hippy again,[br]but watch how, the middle of,

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the energy that [br]you're using to press this finger down,

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is the centre of your finger, don't let [br]it be just the tip or the underneath.

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But try and kind of [br]press it down from the middle,

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almost like you're trying [br]to press the G string,

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or the 3rd string [br]down harder than the others,

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it's a really good way [br]to think of getting your,

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that barre chord shape really solid.

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Now the other important part I need to [br]show you is the position of the 3rd finger.

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OK here we are for our [br]new angle for the 3rd finger.

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Now what I want you to [br]make sure that you're aware of,

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is that, oh, if I can do this,[br]it is kind of weird.

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This knuckle here, is further forward, [br]than this part of my finger.

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So, it's kind of, it's moving away, like that,

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so when I'm pressing down, [br]I'm able to press from here,

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down with that whole [br]section of my finger there.

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If it's too flat, like this, like a [br]lot of people try and do it like this,

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with their, you know I talked [br]about how bad it is before,

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to have your wrist like this, but [br]if you try and play it like this,

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with the 3rd finger here straight,

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you can't really press down properly in the middle.

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You'll end up either pressing all [br]of them, and getting a 6th chord,

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which isn't what you want really.

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And, or, you'll just really damage your wrist,

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if I just, I might even be able to pan out here.

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If I, yay, look at this, [br]don't you love remote controls?

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See, you can see how [br]badly positioned my wrist is there,

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to have this huge big bend [br]there, is really gonna be uncomfortable,

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and that's caused by [br]having my third finger straight,

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whereas if I'd, if I do that,[br]I'll do that as a close-up if I can.

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Yes, sneaking in,[br]look at this, I love technology.

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If I bend my 3rd finger in like this,[br]now you can see that's correct,

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and the angle, well it's still got an angle,

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but it's nowhere near as bad [br]as when it was like that.

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So there is still a bit of an angle there,[br]but it's not terrible.

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OK, so, oh, a little bit too close there.

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So, just really make sure then that this part of it,

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this knuckle is further forward [br]than that part of your hand.

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So, and your pressing down that,[br]and also it's laying down,

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and it's lifting up,[br]so I'm actually able to get this note here,

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the 2nd string and mute the 1st string.

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So this note here is ringing, [br]and the thinnest string is not ringing.

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It's really important.

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Make sure again you do [br]your strum, pick-out, and strum again.

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Make sure that you got all those notes.

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And also check that the two outside strings[br]are muted as well.

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To the Master Your Barre Chords Part 4,

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where we're going to look at the [br]variations of that barre chord shape.

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Make sure you spend a little [br]bit of time with it again.

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Try and get one chord shape down at a time,

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and be really happy with the way you play it.

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There's no point in knowing lots and lots of chords

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that you can't play and that you can't remember.

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So, it's definitely, definitely [br]worth writing these things down,

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you know, print off some [br]chord paper from my website,

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write down all the chords that you [br]know so you've created your own chord book.

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So you've got a kind of a [br]collection of the things that you know.

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The chords that you know in your head.

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You'll also find writing it down on [br]a page will help you remember each shape.

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So, of course there's chords on my [br]website that you could choose to print out.

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But I think writing them down yourself is also a good way

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of making sure that you remember them.

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So, before you move on to the next [br]one you want to make sure that you've got

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all your E shape, your Major, min, min7[br]and 7 chords so they're all sounding cool.

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And, excuse me, also the A shaped barre chords.

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Remember, of course, that this [br]is now a 5th string Root.

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So, whereby we had a regular A chord,

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the chord I was just demonstrating[br]in that close-up was a Bb chord,

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. . .

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cause I always had my 1st finger in the 1st fret,

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if I put my 1st finger in the [br]3rd fret, we've now got a C chord.

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You hear it's quite similar, there's open chord C,

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barre chord C, pretty straight forward.

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C at the 3rd fret, D at the 5th fret,

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E at the 7th fret. That's the basic gist.

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You should hopefully have checked out[br]your Root notes for 5th and 6th string Root

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in the Power Chords lesson.[br]If you didn't, you're very naughty

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and you should go and revise[br]your Power Chords right now.

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OK, I shall see you later on for Part 4,[br]when we check out the minors,

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and the 7th shapes for [br]this 5th string Root barre chord.

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Remember this is A shape,[br]because it's built around an A chord.

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Take care and see you soon, bye bye.