Talk:Barre chord

message: The image's title reads: "A barre chord (so-called "E Major shape"), with the index finger used to bar the strings." Is there any reason for that "so-called" there? (As far as I know, using "so-called" implies a negative context.)
I will change it for now. If it should actually have that "so-called" in there, then feel free to change it back for me.
amit ron-
192.116.116.238 (talk) 13:18, 27 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "So-called" meant "colloquially" since the "shape" is named for the open position chord and this may be confusing since you end up with the actual chord played and the "chord shape" and as you can imagine this is "guitar-player speak" that classical theorists look down upon. Hyacinth (talk) 17:21, 10 March 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Title on image 

message: Why, what, where, and how does this article need additional citations for verification? Hyacinth (talk) 08:29, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Tag removed. Hyacinth (talk) 09:49, 30 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Additional citations

message: Per WP:LEAD, this article's lead should probably be rewritten since it is pretty much as long as the body of the article. Hyacinth (talk) 09:42, 7 March 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Done. Hyacinth (talk) 13:53, 10 March 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Lead

message: In the article it says 
> The specific spelling "barre" comes from Spanish, as the guitar historically originated in Spain.
Barré in Spanish is cejilla. The word barré is French as far as I know and doesn't exist in the Spanish vocabulary. There might be the word "barra" for bar, but that's not barré either. If you have other sources proof me wrong. 92.204.54.143 (talk) 15:11, 30 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barré is French not Spanish 

message: In the top of the page it describes a barre chord as "using one or more fingers to press down multiple strings across a single fret of the fingerboard" and then shortly after that it says "to play a chord that is not restricted by the tones of the guitar's open strings" and "the player can move the whole chord shape up and down the neck" but those two things have nothing to do with each other. For example:
  Fsus2 (I'm not smart enough to figure out why it makes the chord boxes sideways, sorry)
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This is holding down multiple stings with one finger but is not movable because of the open string.
  Cmaj7
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This is a movable shape but no finger is holding down multiple stings.
There are more flaws to the article but this is the biggest one in my opinion.Brian Earl Haines (talk) 03:29, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: I'll tweak it to add qualifiers like "most" and "many" and "usually".  Finding the odd exception doesn't invalidate the fact that the statements are mostly true for how most people use barre chords.  --Jayron32 13:37, 2 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Define Barre chord 

message: Since CAGED points to this page, I have to talk about it here. The two should be separate, but they are often confused. On Youtube, you'll see many guitarists describing CAGED as a method for playing chords up the neck based on open string forms. This will work, but my understanding of CAGED is that it is a system for fingering single note lines, not chords. 
The fingering forms are called C, A, G, E and D because they overlap with the positions of the arpeggios as played by the chord forms. This is true by definition - if you're going to play a major scale in one position, you have to play the notes of the arpeggios of those chord forms - it's the same damn notes, after all.
Obviously, this page does not cover single note fingering, so there's a problem here. However, a note links to a 'why you should  not used CAGED' web page that does refer to single note fingering, and not chords. 
It seems to me that CAGED needs its own page. A link  could send chord forms to this page, and take care of single note fingering on its own. 
MarkinBoston (talk) 16:44, 8 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Barre chord forms and CAGED fingering 

message: In the image with small Gm, it is described as E-shaped. I believe this should be Em shaped..? 2A00:23C7:821F:BF01:9DCE:EB4C:7BC5:4928 (talk) 06:56, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I think E-shaped is fine, in terms of how chords are referred to using the CAGED system? JezGrove (talk) 07:46, 12 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Another title on image