page_title: Barre chord
section_title: Diagonal barre chord
hierarchical_section_title: Barre chord / Diagonal barre chord
caption_attribution_description: English: Diagonal barre chord: major seventh chord on G. The first finger fingers both the second fret on the first four strings and the third fret on the sixth string.
context_page_description: In music, a barre chord is a type of chord on a guitar or other stringed instrument, that the musician plays by using one or more fingers to press down multiple strings across a single fret of the fingerboard.
  Players often use this chording technique to play a chord that is not restricted by the tones of the guitar's open strings. For instance, if a guitar is tuned to regular concert pitch, with the open strings being E, A, D, G, B, E, open chords must be based on one or more of these notes. To play an F♯ chord the guitarist may barre strings so that the chord root is F♯.
  Most barre chords are "moveable" chords, as the player can move the whole chord shape up and down the neck. Commonly used in both popular and classical music, Barre chords are frequently used in combination with "open" chords, where the guitar's open strings construct the chord. Playing a chord with the barre technique slightly affects tone quality. A closed, or fretted, note sounds slightly different from an open, unfretted, string. Barre chords are a distinctive part of the sound of pop music and rock music.
context_section_description: A diagonal barre chord is a "very rare chord" involving "the barring of a couple of strings with the first finger [diagonally] on different frets."
caption: Diagonal barre chord: major seventh chord on G.[10]  About this soundPlay (help·info) The first finger frets both the second fret on the first four strings and the third fret on the sixth string.
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