A rather detailed article on barre chords, how to play them, posture and a lot more - really useful for beginner & intermediate players!
Here’s what’s awesome about barre chords. You get twelve for the price of one. You can learn one barre chord shape and move it around the neck to get twelve different chords!
That also means you can play chords in any key. So if you come across a song with an F or Bm chord, you can play it using barre chords! Need to play chords with exotic names like Bb7, C# or Abm7? You can play them with barre chords!
TWO TIPS BEFORE YOU START
1. DON’T START WITH AN F BARRE CHORD!
Many people arrive at barre chords after learning a bunch of open chords. At some point, they run into songs with an F chord or a B minor chord in it, so those are the first barre chords they try.
This seems like a good idea, but barre chords that are closer to the nut are more difficult to play. The F barre chord is actually one of the most difficult barre chords there is!
- MAKE SURE THE ‘ACTION’ ON YOUR GUITAR ISN’T TOO HIGH
There is a slight chance that your guitar is harder to play than it should be. If you feel like fretting a note is a lot of work, this might mean that your ‘action’ is too high. Action refers to the distance between the fretboard and your strings.
Andthere's many more barre chord tip's n tricks from the StringKick article here
