[Demon_Hunter]

i was gonna put this in theory and technique, but i noticed hardly anyone is posting in there, so im gonna put it in here.

ok, yesterday i started practicing bm, and f#m, and i was wonderin if there are any other simple barre chords out there that would be good to practice?

[Saxophone]

T&T needs posts to stay active, plus we have all the experts over there. I'm going to move it, we're flooded as it is. As for simple barr chords, keep holding the posistion of your f#m and move it up and down the fret board in tones or semitones (depending on what chord your looking for of course ).

[Demon_Hunter]

i put this in guitar cause there is a pretty active amount of posters.

anyways, whats a semi-tone? you mean flats and sharps? or something different?

[Saxophone]

Yup a semitone is going from lets say F to F# or F to Fb

[Kevin071586]

Its been dead because nobody has questions

I check it every day, though

As for your barre chords.. here are some basic forms you can practice:

For a major chord:
x13331 - "A form", A# major chord
133211 - "E form", F major chord

For a minor chord:
x13321 - "A form", A# minor chord
133111 - "E form", F minor chord

The idea for all of the above forms is that you can "slide" the whole form up or down and increase/decrease the chord by an increment. For instance, you could slide "A form, A# major chord" up one fret to be x24442 and you'd have "A form, B major chord." Get it? Hope so

Another major version you can try if you have got those down is the "C form":
143121 - "C form", C# major chord

This one looks hard, but its actually not too bad and its fairly popular.. it has a nice voicing too. Also makes for good arppegios. It's basically a C chord with a barre. So play a C chord.. but instead of using your first three fingers, use your middle, ring, and pinky, and barre with your index.

Hope that helps

-Kevin

[Demon_Hunter]

tanx

[sabertooth181]

youll be able to play almost any song with barre chords just by moving E form and A form, along with all the variations of these chords(e.g. m,7,2,#)

[sabertooth181]

Originally Posted by Saxophone

Yup a semitone is going from lets say F to F# or F to Fb

is there such thing as Fb?

[MJ_Avalanche]

Originally Posted by sabertooth181

is there such thing as Fb?

Theoretically, yes, although in pitch it's actually an E.

[Demon_Hunter]

why is there e-f, and no e# or fb

and why is there b-c with no b# or cb? this has confused me for a while now, and id like to know.

[MJ_Avalanche]

Originally Posted by demon_hunter

why is there e-f, and no e# or fb

and why is there b-c with no b# or cb? this has confused me for a while now, and id like to know.

It's due to a word called "diatonic". It means "across the note names", meaning that in a scale each note has to have a different name as you progess up the scale. Because of that, in the key of C we have:

CDEFGABC

Instead of:
CDEE#GABB#

The second one is using chromatic movement, which is incorrect. Now, notes like E# and Fb do exist. In F# major, the 7th (leading tone) is E#. I can't seem to think of any natural occurances of Fb however, so that may be a "man-made" note. Also, these odd looking notes of Fb and E# are enharmonic (same pitch, different name) to E and F natural, respectively.

Same thing goes for Cb and B#. Cb occurs in Gb major as the 4th, and is enharmonic to B natural. B# occurs in C# harmonic minor as the the 7th, and is enharmonic to C natural.

That help explain it to ya a little better?

[Demon_Hunter]

[scratching head] ehh, maybe when my head stops spinning, lol

actually, that did make some sense to me, so thanx

[MJ_Avalanche]

Originally Posted by demon_hunter

[scratching head] ehh, maybe when my head stops spinning, lol

actually, that did make some sense to me, so thanx

That's cool. Just so it makes some kind of sense. I'm looking at it now and I'm wondering what I was thinking. That's too many words to try and explain it. Basically, diatonic, and enharmonic are the two words responsible for the strange note names.