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So where are all the barre chord fans out there? It seems like after I was playing for only a month or two on the open chords, I started to hear about
barre chords. I couldn’t figure out what the big deal was. Then a friend of mine spent a few minutes showing me how you can move a barre chord up and down the fret board, and I started to clue into why barre chords are cool.

The other thing about that basic intro to barre chords was that I started to understand just a little bit about the fret board and how you can figure out the various notes and chords. Now mind you I am not an expert… in fact, I am barely even a beginner. But just the slightest glimmer of understanding is starting to seep in.

It seems like the E shaped barre chord is one of the favorites… or at least one of the easiest barre chords. And it didn’t take too long for me to be able to form that E shaped barre chord and move it around. It didn’t always sound great (and it still doesn’t), but I am making progress. However, I still really stink when it comes to moving to it in any type of a timely fashion.

Then another friend pointed out that the good old F major chord is really a barre chord, since you are holding down the first two strings on the first fret. Well now, here is a barre chord that I can actually make with some degree of alacrity.

In my last post I asked if I could move this barre chord - the F major shape - around the fret board to make different chords. Logic seems to say yes, but I can’t find any references to it in any of my “learning guitar” books, or even any chord reference books.

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