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Kevin Taylor
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Kevin Taylor
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 03/05/00
Posts: 4,722
03/07/2009 1:36 am
On some barre chords I've learned to use my second finger to help the first finger press down by placing the second finger over the first to give it extra leverage. On minor bar chords for instance.

I also use an alternate fingering method sometimes that gives the effect of a barre chord but uses the thumb instead.

ie, A barred A chord


------5--------------------------------------------------------------------
------5-------------------------------------------------------------------
------6-------------------------------------------------------------------
------7--------------------------------------------------------------------
------7-------------------------------------------------------------------
------5-------------------------------------------------------------------

Use the first finger to barre the 1st and second strings on the 5th fret.
Place the second finger on the 3rd string 6th fret
Place the third finger on the 5th string 7th fret
Place the pinky on the 4th string 7th fret
Use the thumb on the 6th string 5th fret.

You can now move that up and down the fret board and get the same sound as a barre chord