This is great as long as barring notes feels new to you. That means you can use it in a song the exact same way you’d use a full F minor shape. It’s got the notes of an F minor chord in, so it’s still an F minor chord. Yup, you’ll still have to bar down those top 3 notes with your index finger, but it should now feel much easier.Īnd if this new bar chord thing is taking a lot of getting used to, then you can always simplify the shape down even further: Or drop two notes, and just start the shape from the F note an octave higher:īoth do the same job, so pick whichever shape you prefer. So most of us guitarists will simplify this shape down to make it easier to play. I mean, whoever came up with that shape deserves to stub their toe on something. Tried it yet? Good, you’ll have realized that it’s practically impossible to play by now. So to do that, you’ll want to flatten down the underside edge of your index finger down across the 1st fret so that it presses down the low E string, and GBE strings too. But to play this shape, and all F minor shapes actually, we’ll have to bar with our 1st finger. So that means, if we use the F note on the 1st fret of the E string as our bass note, and we slide all the notes in this Em shape up 1 fret with it, we’d get an F minor chord:Īnd there’s your first shape! We call it the E shape because it’s just an E minor chord shifted upwards. From there, we build a chord shape using the other strings, right? Notice how the bass note is the open low E string, which is obviously an E note. F Minor Shape 1 – The E ShapeĮ shape? What the heck does E have to do with any of this…Īha! Well, start by playing an E minor chord like this: So today I’ll be going over 5 easy ways that you can play an F minor chord on guitar to get you ripping up those chord progressions. Alright guys, it’s F minor time! Whoop! Whoop! Wait, why am I so excited? I don’t even like this chord, B minor’s way better…Īh well, I guess I’ll talk about it anyway.
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