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What way to learn a chord?


hypedamian
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hypedamian
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05/06/2020 4:36 pm

I am working my way throught the Begier Lesons with Lisa McCormick, and trying to make some nots and quick refrence guides of fingering for Chords. I have also been using Guitartricks.com, Guitar Toolbox, Guitar Chord Chart for this.

But now I have found some of the chordes in the lesons arn't in there G has same finger positions but different fingers for "pinky G" and I understand how and why this works.

How ever F, B and Bm are not represent even remotly the same.

So my question is what do I learn. to move with the flow of the leson it would be the simplifyed chord. But if I will need to relearn it a difernt way I fell I would be wasting my time as this dose not come easaly to me. I am able to play the F barre chord 50% of the time so should I keep at it? I understand that the simplifyed vertions dont sounf as good or full, but is there a use for that once I get past being a total newbie?


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AndrewTanner
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AndrewTanner
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05/08/2020 5:01 pm

Lisa does explain (perhaps later in the course than where you're at) that B and F are a little tricky as they don't lend themselves to open chords. She also mentions that B and F are very uncommon keys to use for guitar based music, presumably because of this reason - the chords are a bit lacking. She does actually touch upon B7 to use as a substitute for B and 7th chords always sound really nice.

Stick with the flow of the lessons. I know the temptation might be to fill in the gaps yourself but Lisa does a great job of covering all this complication. Barre chords will get covered later. They're not as nice as open chords but given you don't have much choice with B and F they will have to do!


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