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Bm and Barre Chords
Filed Under (Barre Chords, Basic Moves, Chords, Exercise, Practice, Practice Session, Random Thought, Rhythm) by Frank on 18-11-2008
Tagged Under : Barre Chords, Basic Moves, Bm, Chord, Chord Diagram, Chords, Exercise, Guitar, Hurt, Learning, Music, Music Reading, Practice, Progression, Rhythm, Win
Most of my practice time has been spent on learning how to read sheet music while playing — not something that is coming easy for me. Thus far, I’ve worked my way up to the D string (from high E). It has taken me about four weeks to get to there. In retrospect, I think that is terrible… I wish I had gotten further faster…
Anyway, tonight after I finished going over about 45 minutes worth of note reading practice and some finger work [this exercise] I spent time looking at barred chords. Right now, as I write this my left hand is hurting me… I really worked the barred chord. I spent about 10 minutes playing a Bm, A, G, Em progression.
After which I started playing a A, G and then a D, C progression. I was playing these using the following chords.
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- A Chord as a “E Shape” Barred Chord
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- G Chord as a “E Shape” Barred Chord
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- D Chord as a 5th string “A Shape” Barred Chord
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- C Chord as a 5th string “A Shape” Barred Chord
I believe that this is good barred chord practice. Using the A, G progress as an example I was playing:
------------------------------------------ 4/4 A / / / | / / / / | G / / / | / / / /| ------------------------------------------
Repeat that 4 times and then play the same rhythm for D, C progression.
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Great post – and also a great reminder that I need to get off my lazy rear and practice.
Any practice where you start off slow then see how many clean changes you can do in a minute (using a metronome) is great for improving the way you play and for refining how your hand ‘lands’ on the fretboard. Challenge yourself, build up speed and keep track of your progress to stay motivated. One day it simply becomes ‘easy’ for no reason
Kenskis last blog post..Geez…
@MJK: Thank you for the kind words.
@Kenski: Thank you for the tip. I was playing the above at 60 BPM. I wouldn’t call every change “clean” but I got quite a few of them. Just getting the majority of them shows improvement. My guitar teacher has also given me some tips that have helped out. I hope to post those tips today if I can find the time…
Thanks for stopping by!