Guitar Basics: Learn Barre Chords

Guitar Lessons for Every Beginner. Learn How to Play Barre Chords, How to Use a Capo and Play a Song With Barre Chords.

What you'll learn

How to play barre chords

How to play half barre chords

How to use a capo to get the most out of your guitar’s fretboard

An introduction to music theory as it relates to the guitar and creating chords

How to play a song that uses barre chords, giving you the chance to put these concepts into action

Tips, tricks and resources

Requirements

This course assumes you’re already familiar with major and minor open chords, rhythmic notation, and reading guitar charts.

You'll learn everything you need to know about how to play barre chords.

Access to an acoustic guitar or an electric guitar and a tuner is required. *You can use a free tuning app for your phone or tablet.

Description

Welcome to my “Guitar Basics” series. This class is all about mastering barre chords. It’s designed for beginners and applies to both acoustic and electric guitar.Barre chords unlock the fretboard and free up your guitar playing! They are very versatile chords and are used in countless songs. Learning barre chords is an essential step in a guitar player's development. In this class we will cover the correct way to build and play these particular chords.After we learn how to play full barre chords and half barre chords we will utilize these skills to learn and play an original song.Key Lessons:How to play barre chordsHow to play half barre chordsHow to use a capo to get the most out of your guitar’s fretboardAn introduction to music theory as it relates to the guitar and creating chordsHow to play a song that uses barre chords, giving you the chance to put these concepts into actionTips, tricks and resourcesResources: A downloadable PDF, that includes the chord diagrams (chord boxes) used in the song. I also provide sheets to help with tuning your guitar and reading chord diagrams.This class was created with beginners in mind, but it assumes you’re already familiar with guitar essentials such as major and minor open chords, rhythmic notation, and reading guitar charts. For a refresher on any of those skills, review some of my other classes such as Acoustic Guitar Basics or Electric Guitar Basics.I would love to hear from you and am happy to answer any questions, so please feel free to reach out to me by sending me a message here on Udemy.I invite you to continue your music learning journey beyond this course. I have other classes available here on Udemy and I encourage you to check them out.

Overview

Section 1: Getting Started

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 Class Project

Lecture 3 Getting Started

Section 2: Barre Chords, Half Barre Chords and Using a Capo

Lecture 4 Barre Chords

Lecture 5 Half Barre Chords

Lecture 6 Using a Capo

Section 3: Play a Song With Barre Chords

Lecture 7 Playing a Song With Barre Chords

Section 4: Conclusion

Lecture 8 Final Thoughts

This class was created with beginners in mind, but it assumes you’re already familiar with guitar essentials such as major and minor open chords, rhythmic notation, and reading guitar charts.