http://www.guitarbeginners.com Guitar & music lessons for absolute beginners and beyond Mon, 23 Aug 2010 09:15:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/barre-chord-7-exercises-to-master-the-barre-chord/ http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/barre-chord-7-exercises-to-master-the-barre-chord/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 23:00:19 +0000 Amar Guerfi http://www.guitarbeginners.com/?p=15 To bar means to press several strings, on a single fret, with only one finger. Barre chords will always be indicated by the letter C followed by a Roman numeral to indicate the fret where the bar occurs (ie C III represents a bar on the 3rd fret). These exercises are graded by order of difficulty. Start with the first exercise and do not pass onto the next one until you play it correctly. The mastering of the barre chord requires a little perseverance...]]> http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/barre-chord-7-exercises-to-master-the-barre-chord/feed/ 0 http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/e-blues-3-hammering-on-pulling-off-3-and-4-sound-chords/ http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/e-blues-3-hammering-on-pulling-off-3-and-4-sound-chords/#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 18:15:22 +0000 Amar Guerfi http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/e-blues-3-hammering-on-pulling-off-3-and-4-sound-chords/ SCHEDULING YOUR WORK: As usual, to begin with, practise the first measure: Practise the fingerings of the left hand without the rhythm. Introduce the correct picking directions (be careful the strokes are not systematically alternated). Then, play the whole song with the indicated rhythm. Having done this, train yourself to play the pattern in measure [...]]]> http://www.guitarbeginners.com/intermediate/e-blues-3-hammering-on-pulling-off-3-and-4-sound-chords/feed/ 0