Newsgroups: alt.guitar.tab,rec.music.makers.guitar.tablature
Subject: Re: Chord (was Choard) Formations...
From: jhalvers@plains (Jon Halverson)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 02:29:29 GMT
Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network
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fjhenigm@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca (Frank J. Henigman) writes:
: <IBRUNTON@ESTEC.BITNET> writes:
:
: [...]
:
: >3. Get some mates. Very important this. For example, any book will
: >tell you to play C major like this:
:
: > o||-|-|-|      but for most purposes,     ||-|-|-| real name:
: >  ||1|-|-|      the superior, but less     ||1|-|-| Cmaj(G bass)
: > o||-|-|-|      correct fingering is:      ||-|-|-|
: >  ||-|2|-|                                 ||-|2|-|
: >  ||-|-|3|                                 ||-|-|4| <--- should be a 3
: > x||-|-|-|                                 ||-|-|3|
:
:
:

: Second, how do you finger an A-shape bar chord?  The problem with this
:
:   ===========      try   ===========   or just  ===========
:   | | | | | |            | | | | | |            | | | | | |
:   1 1 1 1 1 1            1 1 1 1 1 1     for    | 1 | | | |
:   | | | | | |            | | | | | |     your   | | | | | |
:   | | 2 3 4 |            | | 3 3 3 x     high   | | 3 4 | |
:   | | | | | |            | | | | | |    action  | | | | | |
:   | | | | | |                                   x       x x
:
: is that before I get half way up the neck I can't cram three fingers
: between the frets.  Am I dreaming or did I once see someone "bar" the
: DGB strings with the second or third finger?  This seems impossible to
: me, but I have a fairly cheap acoustic with high action.  In my limited
: experience with electrics they are easier to play because of the lower
: action and the looser strings which don't require as much pressure.

   Basically.

: Can one actually do this "mini bar" without muting the high E and without
: having double jointed knuckles?

  I can't but it dosen't bother me much.

  What's the best way to play this shape
: to facilitate the change to and from the Am-shape?
:
   The second way works best for me since I can just add the 2nd finger.


: One last question.  A while back someone posted fragments of
: "Nearly Lost You" which included the following:
:
:                 Gsus4                Asus4
:        G          |  G      A          |  A
:
: e   ---3----3--3--3--3------5----5--5--5--5----|----------------|
: B   ---3----3--3--3--3------5----5--5--5--5----|----------------|
: G   ---4----4--4--5--4------6----6--6--7--6----|----------------|
: D   ---5----5--5--5--5------7----7--7--7--7----|--2-------------|
: A   ---5----5--5--5--5------7----7--7--7--7----|--2-------------|
: E   ---3----3--3--3--3------5----5--5--5--5----|--0-------------|
:
:        1          2         3          4          1  2  3  4
:
:
: How does one slip in the sus4 chords?  Am I supposed to be able to slide
: my second finger up a fret?  The third and fourth fingers get in the way.

  I play the second guitar part of the song w/ the band, but if I were to
play it I would just use my little finger that is on the 4th string to bar
the 3rd as well.

ie.    ===========
       | | | | | |
       | | | | | |
       1 | | | 1 1    the hard part here is keeping the two high notes.
       | | | 2 | |    But since it's distorted anyway, I don't think
       | 3 4 4 | |    anyone will notice. If they do, and care, they're
                      anal retentive.

hope I could help.
let me know if you have any more ?'s

jh