This exercise is great for developing the muscle memory and recall needed to play any chord. Instead, take a break and let a few seconds pass by before you do the quickdraw exercise again. You don’t need to perform the quick draw exercise every five seconds.
#Bm guitar chord free#
As you learn this chord, feel free to take breaks as needed. To play this chord, it takes a lot of finger strength. When you play with the tips of your fingers, your fingers are less likely to accidentally mute another string.Īdditionally, make sure your fingers are fretting just behind the fret - not on top, and not in the middle of two frets. making sure the joints of your fingers are bending) allows them you to play on the tips of your fingers. If it sounds muddy, you notice some muted notes, make sure your fingers have a nice arch in them. Once your fingers are in the right position, go ahead and strum the Bm chord.
#Bm guitar chord how to#
Experiment and think logical and most important: don't get frustrated trying to figure guitar bar chords out, it takes some time.(If the image above is confusing for you, check out my lesson on how to read chord diagrams here. You can also do this with other chords like major7, minor7, major 9. Īgain, change the fingering to liberate your index finger, slide it 2 frets up and add the 'bar': If we slide the Bm chord 1 fret up we get a Cm chord, 2 frets more and it's a Dm chord. This chord becomes a Bm guitar bar chord if we slide it up 2 frets and add the 'bar': Now we used the A major chord, but like before we can also use the minor chord:Ĭhange the chord fingering like we did with the E chord on the previous page so you're index finger becomes available. The guitar neck with the notes of the A string: Just remember there's always 2 half steps between the scale tones, except between E-F and B-C (1 half step). Like before, you can slide this chord up and down the guitar neck. You have to bend your little finger a bit to allow the high E to sound. The difficulty with this chord voicing is the highest E string. Here's the guitar chord picture and diagram: It depends a bit on the shape of your fingers if this alternative fretting works or not. This is not a very easy chord to take in the beginning.Īn alternative way of fretting this chord is using the little finger instead of fingers 2, 3 and 4. If you have followed my explanation correctly it should look something like this: Then 'bar' all the strings on the second fret with your index finger. Now slide all the notes of the chord two frets higher on the neck. The major bar chords start from the A chord: There's one difference: don't play the E string because it is not part of the chord and it will not sound good most times. Guitar bar chords that have their bass note on the A string work in the same way as the bar chords with the root on the E string.