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When you play a regular open E chord, 
the low note E is the open string,

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which is the 6th string.

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So that's kind of the, what we 
call the 'root' note of the chord.

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The concept of this root note is that if
we move a chord and it doesn't use any

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open strings the chord has a root note 
and that becomes the name of the chord.

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So this chord here, where 
we moved E up one fret,

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and put the barre down to make F, 
the reason that that chord is called F,

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is cause the root note, the note 
underneath your first finger is the note F.

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Now if we think about where the 
other notes are on the 6th string,

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say the 3rd fret of the 
6th string is the note G,

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so if we put down our barre chord shape, 
the same one that we're just talking about now,

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but now the 3rd fret, 
the note underneath the 1st finger,

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3rd fret, 6th string, is the note 
G, so it becomes a G chord.

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And then if we move it up 
another two frets it becomes the note A.

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So this becomes A barre chord, and you 
can hear these things if you test them,

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it's quite a nice thing to listen 
to, is the G at the 3rd fret,

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barre chord and G open 
chord. Very, very similar chords.

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An A chord with open A. 
That's A at the 5th fret.

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They sound slightly different of 
course, it's a different voicing,

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or a different grip of the 
chord, but it's essentially the same chord.

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So it's a good 
idea that you hear 
that.

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Now, there's also a 
few very common variations.

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Of this E shape. We've 
just been talking about E Major,

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and that's definitely the first one 
that you should try and get down,

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but after that you can 
also learn minor, dominant 7th,

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and minor 7. Dominant 7th 
is obviously sometimes just called 7.

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So, we're gonna go 
back to another closeup now,

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if I can get my little 
remote going, and then we'll check

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out what these other variations are 
on the E barre chord shape.

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OK, here we are now, this 
is up at the 5th fret,

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I'm holding this chord down, this 
would be an A barre chord,

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A Major, and just very often 
referred to as just A barre chord.

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Now, the first variation that 
you want to learn of this,

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or the first kind of way 
of changing this into another chord,

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is by lifting of the 2nd 
finger, will get us an Am chord.

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Just the same as when you had an E 
open chord and you lifted off your 1st finger,

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you got an Em chord, 
with this, we started with A,

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if we lift off the 2nd 
finger we get Am barre chord.

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Obviously my helps in 
here (?), there's the Major,

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lift off that 2nd finger, 
and you've got the minor.

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Now you can see that my 2nd finger's kind of

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lending a little bit of assistance 
there to the 1st finger.

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It's completely cool for that one 
to sit on top there a bit.

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It does make it a lot 
easier to hold the barre down.

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I don't recommend that 
you only learn that way,

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but particularly when you start, you 
might want a little bit of assistance.

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Or if the action's high on your guitar, and 
you need to press the strings down pretty hard,

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that can be a bit of 
an advantage. So then we've got Major,

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lift off the 2nd finger, minor. Now, if 
we go back to Major for a second,

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and we lift off little finger, 
we end up with a 7.

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Just again, if you think back to E 
chord, if you have a regular E chord,

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and you lifted off your 3rd 
finger, you'd end up with E7.

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And so the same shape applies 
up here, so this is A,

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lift off little finger, and you've got 
A7, now you can combine those two things,

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which was lifting off 
2nd finger to get minor,

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lifting off little finger to 
get 7, and you get m7.

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Am7, so Major, lift off 
2nd finger rather, is minor,

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lift off little finger is A7. 
Lift off 2nd finger and little finger,

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and you get Am7. So there (?) 
the four common E shape barre chord forms.

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Major, minor, 7 and m7.

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So you definitely want 
to check those things out.

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Remember that they all move, 
so that was A, 7,

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with the little finger off, if 
I move it up 1 it's Bb7,

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if I move it up again it's B7. You got it.

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They all move around as much as you like.

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This is a pretty weird one, I'm 
not trying to show off my T-shirt,

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and I'm not trying to look 
like I'm chopping my own head off.

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I just want to talk a little 
bit about this part of your arm,

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and how it sits for your barre chord.

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So right now I'm holding an A barre chord,

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You can see here that this join 
here from my forearm into my hand,

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is quite straight along here.

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A lot of people when 
they start their barre chords,

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they try and do this, so in 
order to make their 1st finger straight here,

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their trying to 
straighten their whole hand,

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and they put a really 
big kink in their hand there,

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and that's kinda bending 
in the wrong place.

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If you keep your 
1st finger straight of course,

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you think about it, instead of, 
to make your 1st finger straight,

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you can either do that, 
bring your whole hand up,

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or you could just bend your fingers up, 
and keep this part of your hand straight.

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Which is a lot 
better, you've got all of 


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the muscles that control 
your fingers are in your forearm,

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they're up here, you can see them 
wiggling around when you move your fingers.

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And they're controlled by tendons which 
run down the back of your fingers,

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down into your forearm there, and 
if your wrist is locked like that,

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it's not very good for 
the tendons, they tend to rub,

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and it can kinda lead to RSI 
and I think it's called Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.

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I'm not a doctor, but this is 
just the, no, I'm not a doctor,

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but I'll have a look at it for you.

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So, this is what I've 
heard about this Carpal Tunnel,

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is caused often by the wrist 
being too locked up like this.

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So, try and make sure 
when you're playing your barre,

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if you find that your 
wrist is forward like that,

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try and concentrate on flattening 
that part of your wrist out,

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and making sure that you're 
bending, it's not perfectly flat,

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but it's pretty close to flat.

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That's my barre chord shape there.

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(?) it's pretty straight, yeah?

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So, um, yeah, so just be aware of that.

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Also be aware of this.

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A lot of people do this 
when they try and play barre chords.

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They stick their elbow right out 
like this, it looks kinda funny.

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I call it chicken wings.

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So, just be aware of that.

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If you find that your 
elbow's looking a bit uncomfortable,

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or you've got a lot 
of tension in your shoulder,

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try and imagine that your fingers are stapled or nailed onto the guitar neck,

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and then just relax your forearm.

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'Cause it really should be, even 
though look I'm playing the chord,

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this is really completely loose 
see, it's not even slightly tense.

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So, you want to think about that.

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Well I hope you enjoyed 
that, my first solo installment,

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and that it made sense, and that it's helping you with your E shape barre chords.

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I'm planning on doing all of
the other barre chords as well,

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the A shape and C shape, and 
those kind of interesting CAGED ones as well.

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But I thought I'd start off 
with this and see how much,

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how long it takes me to edit it.

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I'm a still a bit slow on 
the i-movie, but practice makes perfect, hey.

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You all know about that, as I do as well.

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So, hope you have fun, and I'll, I always
kind of get stuttery at the end.

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It's really funny. Take care of yourselves 
and I'll see you soon. Bye Bye.

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There's the t-shirt close up, for 
any of you that missed it.

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(Tassie devil singing.)