{"id":147,"date":"2021-04-13T12:42:03","date_gmt":"2021-04-13T19:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2021-08-26T10:16:56","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T17:16:56","slug":"master-bar-chords","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/master-bar-chords\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Master Bar Chords"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/guitareo.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/email-images\/2021-02\/guitareo-how-to-master-bar-chords.pdf\" class=\"download-button\" rel=\"noopener\">Chord Charts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Bar chords: every beginner guitarist\u2019s nightmare. The fear comes from the chords feeling awkward to play and often bringing tension to your hands. But you can&#8217;t always get away with only playing open cowboy chords on guitar, you\u2019ll eventually need bar chord shapes to play more and more songs you want on the guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Ayla shares tips and exercises to make playing bar chords less difficult and painful. There\u2019s a specific way to hold the guitar and placing your fingers on the fretboard comfortably while getting all of the strings to ring out clearly. She also explains a simple chord progression, used in a lot of popular songs, that serves as an exercise to master these two bar chord shapes:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>B minor shape<\/li>\n<li>G major shape<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>And once you can play those, you\u2019ve essentially mastered the minor and major bar chord shapes!<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s important to practice bar chord shapes to know what sounds good and identify what is and isn\u2019t working with your technique. And if you follow Ayla\u2019s tips, and go at your own pace, bar chords will become a natural part of your guitar playing instead of an intimidating one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tips and exercises to make playing bar chords less difficult and painful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":426,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guitareo.com\/riff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}