Comments on: Beginner Guitar Chords - Handling Chord Changes

By: chris

chris — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 07:00:31 +0000

The F major chord shape in the chart above is the non-barre F shape, which is the one that people usually learn first of all.

Since this post was aimed at beginners learning chord changes, it seemed best to use this particular F major shape, it also fits in well with changing to it from the C major chord.

Learning barre chords is a very useful step on from that, I did a post about it previously, which you can see in the learning barre chords post in this category.

If you can play the ‘F’ shape barre chord though, there should be no issue switching from G major to F major - you would just play the full G major barre chord at the 3rd fret, and then slide this same shape down to the 1st fret for F major.

By: mpya

mpya — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 23:33:50 +0000

and by the way your f chord is not like everyones f chord.all the other f chords i have seen are barred from the large sixth string which means all atrings are played.

By: chris

chris — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 10:12:12 +0000

Going from G major to F major is kind of a combination of exercises 4 & 5 above, but missing out the C major chord. Basically, I think if you can practise exercises 4 & 5 individually and get the changes to be smooth, then you can then go easily from G -> F.

For this change, I think it makes it easier if you use the ‘3-2-4′ fingering for the G major chord, rather than the regular ‘2-1-3′ fingering.

Have a look at the G major chord on the chart above. Finger 3 is on the bottom (lowest sounding) string at the 3rd fret, and finger 4 (pinky) is on the top string (highest sounding), also at the 3rd fret. Finger 2 is on the 5th string at the 2nd fret.

Finger 1 is not used in this fingering of the G major chord, and this is good for switching to other chords.

Begin with exercise 4 above, but start off on the G major chord, with fingering as above. When you come to switch to the C major chord, fingers 2 & 3 just slide across one string each, and finger 1 just comes down on the 2nd string. Just practise that change for a while.

On exercise 5, again, look at it as starting off from C major, then going to F major. Finger 1 is already in position pretty much, you just need to bring fingers 2 & 3 across by one string again.

So then you’re practising:

G major -> C major ; C major -> F major

after a bit more practise, you should find that you can go

G major -> F major

in one go - you might start forming the C major chord as you move away from G major, but it turns right to F major.

If you’re using the regular ‘2-1-3′ fingering for G major, it can be a bit tricker, as finger 1 has to come across from the 5th string to the top two strings, which is why I suggest the G major fingering outlined above.

Hope this helps!

By: mpya

mpya — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:34:10 +0000

greetngs i just dont understand how does one move from major g to major f ??

holla back at a dude