CitizenSnips
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This is by far the most painful chord I have ever tried to learn. I've been practicing it for a good 2 weeks now and haven't seen much improvement. It looks like this:
I'm pretty sure its a B anyways. It first showed up when I was trying to learn Hey Jude a few weeks ago, and the song requires you switch from F to B numerous times and I just can't get the hang of it. The F chord is no problem, I mastered it thanks to an old thread I posted here and a lot of help from you guys. I'm hoping some of you can help me again with this B chord. I can get it to sound clear, but it is extremely painful on my fingers and I have to contort my whole body, leaning towards the neck of the guitar to have it sound right.
My main problem is having my first finger bar the whole first fret while I try getting all 3 of my others fingers to play the A shape on the 3rd fret. Either my finger starts sliding off the bar of the first fret and starts moving into the second or my other fingers holding the A shape start plunking because I'm using all my pressure on my first finger to keep it barred.
The way I have been practicing is just playing through the whole Hey Jude song and forcing myself to finger the B chord, even if it doesn't sound right. This hasn't given me very much improvement and I'm hoping to find another way. Plus my whole left hand feels like total death before even finishing the song because of all the force I'm using to try and force the B chord correctly. If anyone has got any tips on how I should practice this chord It'd be very appreciated.
For reference, you can clearly see the B chord I am speaking of being played here in this video at the 20 second mark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcyLye9n7vI&feature=related
That is the version of the song I have been trying to learn for the past few weeks.
Code:
B
e -1-|---|---|---|---|
B -1-|---|-4-|---|---|
G -1-|---|-3-|---|---|
D -1-|---|-2-|---|---|
A -1-|---|---|---|---|
E -1-|---|---|---|---|
I'm pretty sure its a B anyways. It first showed up when I was trying to learn Hey Jude a few weeks ago, and the song requires you switch from F to B numerous times and I just can't get the hang of it. The F chord is no problem, I mastered it thanks to an old thread I posted here and a lot of help from you guys. I'm hoping some of you can help me again with this B chord. I can get it to sound clear, but it is extremely painful on my fingers and I have to contort my whole body, leaning towards the neck of the guitar to have it sound right.
My main problem is having my first finger bar the whole first fret while I try getting all 3 of my others fingers to play the A shape on the 3rd fret. Either my finger starts sliding off the bar of the first fret and starts moving into the second or my other fingers holding the A shape start plunking because I'm using all my pressure on my first finger to keep it barred.
The way I have been practicing is just playing through the whole Hey Jude song and forcing myself to finger the B chord, even if it doesn't sound right. This hasn't given me very much improvement and I'm hoping to find another way. Plus my whole left hand feels like total death before even finishing the song because of all the force I'm using to try and force the B chord correctly. If anyone has got any tips on how I should practice this chord It'd be very appreciated.
For reference, you can clearly see the B chord I am speaking of being played here in this video at the 20 second mark:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcyLye9n7vI&feature=related
That is the version of the song I have been trying to learn for the past few weeks.
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