I know this has been discussed a bazillion times, but here it goes.
I've been playing guitar for 50 years and uke for about 15. It's not that I can't play the first position E Chord shape, it is that it is incredibly hard to play it cleanly. It's worse on the guitar because it's a hard one to bar. On the uke the problem is, even on a tenor, there is just not quite enough room and if you are finger picking you need precision.
So like a lot of players I have a number of workarounds and I almost never play that shape. I'm fine with just three strings. And, if you think about it on the uke tuned reentrant the top and bottom string are playing the same note so it really is easy to work around.
But I wonder, does anyone really ever play this chord cleanly and fluently without muting a note or playing in a different position or substituting the G string for the A string?
I've been playing guitar for 50 years and uke for about 15. It's not that I can't play the first position E Chord shape, it is that it is incredibly hard to play it cleanly. It's worse on the guitar because it's a hard one to bar. On the uke the problem is, even on a tenor, there is just not quite enough room and if you are finger picking you need precision.
So like a lot of players I have a number of workarounds and I almost never play that shape. I'm fine with just three strings. And, if you think about it on the uke tuned reentrant the top and bottom string are playing the same note so it really is easy to work around.
But I wonder, does anyone really ever play this chord cleanly and fluently without muting a note or playing in a different position or substituting the G string for the A string?