Play an open e chord using this fingering that leaves your first finger free. notice that three strings are open. 2. Slide the shape up one fret. (Image credit: Future) We want to turn this e into an F chord. F is one note higher than e, so move this shape one fret higher. 3. Turning E into an F barre chord. Basic Blues Chords. 12 Bar Blues progressions are usually played with dominant chords. This lesson will use dominant 7th, dominant 9th, and dominant 13th chords. All are common voicings that you should learn. Below are some common dominant chords that will be used in this lesson. Measure 1: C7 rooted on the 6th string, 8th fret. The F# chord (F sharp Major) is most commonly played on the 2nd fret of the guitar, as a root 6 bar chord. None of the notes in the F# chord can be played on open strings, so there is no way to play F# as an open chord. The F# chord is enharmonically the same as Gb Major. Some Quick F# Chord Theory. The F# Major chord contains the notes F#, A# To do this we must create barre chords out of each of the CAGED shapes. Fig. 3 shows all the CAGED chords as barre chords. (Note: No barre is needed to play the "D" shape as a closed chord.) Some of these shapes may feel like old friends. The first barre chords most guitar players learn are the barre form of the "A" and "E" shapes. CAGED Lesson With a root-6 bar chord, playing G major requires you to play the major shape on the 3rd fret, because that’s where G is on the 6th string. As you can see from the above chart, if we want to play a G major using the root-5 bar chord shape, we need to go to the 10th fret, because that’s where G is on the 5th string. A game-changing B barre chord exercise to create clean and buzz free B barre chords PLUS a barre technique lesson and tips!5 Day Acoustic Guitar Challenge The second tip for bar placement is how close your finger is to the fret. If you place your finger towards the middle or back of the fret, the bar chord will end up sounding very buzzy. The closer you are to the fret, the easier it will be to get a good sounding bar. The third tip for bar placement is very specific to each guitar player. Barre chords (in my opinion) are the difficulty curve of guitar. Open chords are easy and scales are easy. Barre chords require patience, strength, and technique. It was the the reason why guitar took me so long. Its basically training ur hand muscles to get adequete strength. I will give some great tips that helped me. 0L6n5.