help please...

junebug22 · Post by **junebug22** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 2:38 pm

would someone be ever so kind and please tell me the fingerings for the F chord! i think i got it but all my fingers get in the way of eachother!

thanks ya'll

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 2:42 pm

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e--1  <--1
b--1  <--1
g--2  <--2
d--3  <--4
a--3  <--3
e--1  <--1

the first set of #'s is the chord. the ones after the arrows are which finger plays it.

junebug22 · Post by **junebug22** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 2:47 pm

do you use your thumb on the low e? i would assume so but just makin sure

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 3:03 pm

i guess you can. most people usually just frat all the strings with your first finger, and then add the other fingers.

start off with this

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e--1
b--1
g--1
d--1
a--1
e--1

using just your first finger. then add the rest. and yes it will hurt at first.

junebug22 · Post by **junebug22** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 3:15 pm

thanks a lot jay....i'll be workin on that for a while from the looks of it!

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 3:31 pm

there is one that is a little easier to work on...

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e--2
b--3
g--4
d--4
a--2
e--

it's a B minor. same idea, but one less string, so it's a little easier...i think the easiest of the basic bar chords.

they are cool because you can slide them around.
like, that B minor is a B minor because the root is a B (second fret on the A string). but if you slide it to 5 for example, you have D minor.

here are all 4 of the chords:

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e--1-----------1---------------2------------2----
b--1-----------1---------------4------------3----
g--2-----------1---------------4------------4----
d--3-----------3---------------4------------4----
a--3-----------3---------------2*-----------2*---
e--1*----------1*---------------------------------
  F Major       F minor         B Major      B minor

i hope that posts right. anyway, those notes with the stars, those are the roots of the chords...

a good song to practise this stuff is The General by Dispatch. it's got all 4 shapes in there somewhere.

that was quite the ramble, sorry...

junebug22 · Post by **junebug22** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 3:47 pm

no no, thanks a ton man.......im just startin out playing so this is all french to me but im catchin on pretty fast.........thanks again jay

bugman96 · Post by **bugman96** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 3:55 pm

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e-----1---5---------13---
b--1--1---6----10---10---
g--2--2---5----10---10---
d--3--3--(7)---10---10---
a--3-----------8---------
e------------------------

Other voicings of F major

Pickles · Post by **Pickles** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 4:00 pm

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e:--
B:-1
G:-2
D:-3
A:--
E:--

thats how i play F

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 4:10 pm

and for some reason i have blue hair. you gotta have blue hair.

i always play F the 133211 way, for some reason it fits my hand better. if a song needs the 3211 voicing, i just strum the top 4 strings with the same chord shape.... i have weird hands maybe. they're too big for me, it's like i'm walking around in big shoes.

"oh peggy hill's feet is big like boat..."

Pickles · Post by **Pickles** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 4:29 pm

and when my mouth is closed it would be really small, but when its open its ridiculously big.

Jay · Post by **Jay** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 4:31 pm

shane wrote:and when my mouth is closed it would be really small, but when its open its ridiculously big.

that's my favorite line.

that and the "make me all shiney...take away me thumbs"

Pickles · Post by **Pickles** » Sat Apr 12, 2003 4:36 pm

The Cheat is GROUNDED! We had that lightswitch installed so you could turn the lights on and off, not so that you could throw glowstick raves. Now lets go crack open this glowstick and pour it in homestar runners mountain dew. i heard they have to pump your stomach after you do that.