String Bar Chords

6th String Bar Chords
In this lesson we are going to learn the basics of bar chords and some of the
different types of chords used with electric guitar when playing rhythms.
Let’s start off looking at an open E-major chord.
And an open E-minor chord where we lift off our first finger.
Look at the notes on the 6th string as we climb up.
If we bar on the 1st fret and form an E-major shape it is not really an E chord any
more. Although the shape looks identical it has become an F chord. We can go
up one more fret and it is an F sharp chord and finally to the 3rd fret where it is a
G chord.
A lot of the time when barring on the neck we use the E-major and E-minor
shapes. To name the chord we need to know the name of the note on the 6th
string, the root note for this chord shape.

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