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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 
about A shaped barre chords.

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I'm a little gutted because
I just filmed four lessons

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

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

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

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

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

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in between your first finger and your thumb,
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
and A shaped barre chords.

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The other songs that I will have to do again now,
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 
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,
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 
barre chord is kind of more important.

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

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But you've either learnt to 
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
that I talk about on my website,

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where you'd swap 1st and 2nd finger 
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,
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,
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
to play A chord anyway,

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because my fingers are a little bit too fat
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
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, 
I'll just move it up one fret.

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

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remembering that it's kind of slightly 
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 
can learn just from this so far,

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now this isn't the way that 
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
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
sitting on the tip of the finger.

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

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

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

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because the Root note
is the note here on the 5th string.

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

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that note has got to be one 
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 
this chord shape down properly,

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with these three fingers in a line like that
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
that note there on the thinnest string as well.

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

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Now, what's actually a lot more common 
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,
I'm going to tuck it under there,

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

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But of course normally when you're 
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
from that other variation that we had,

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

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

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

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

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the note on the 3rd string, 
the note on the 2nd string,

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

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so that this top 
string, the thinnest E string,

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is actually muted again, so that 
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?
There's lots of things that are important.

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

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

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So it's, if the 3rd finger is even
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, 
that's the most important one.

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That's the Root note, so make sure
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,
but watch how, the middle of,

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

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

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

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

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or the 3rd string 
down harder than the others,

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it's a really good way 
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 
show you is the position of the 3rd finger.

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

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

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

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This knuckle here, is further forward, 
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, 
I'm able to press from here,

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down with that whole 
section of my finger there.

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

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

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to have your wrist like this, but 
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 
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, 
don't you love remote controls?

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

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

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

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

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Yes, sneaking in,
look at this, I love technology.

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If I bend my 3rd finger in like this,
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 
as when it was like that.

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So there is still a bit of an angle there,
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 
than that part of your hand.

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

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and it's lifting up,
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, 
and the thinnest string is not ringing.

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It's really important.

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Make sure again you do 
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
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 
variations of that barre chord shape.

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Make sure you spend a little 
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 
worth writing these things down,

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you know, print off some 
chord paper from my website,

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

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So you've got a kind of a 
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 
a page will help you remember each shape.

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So, of course there's chords on my 
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 
one you want to make sure that you've got

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all your E shape, your Major, min, min7
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 
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
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 
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
your Root notes for 5th and 6th string Root

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

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and you should go and revise
your Power Chords right now.

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

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

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

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Take care and see you soon, bye bye.