Barre chord trick for lush, easy open chords!

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🎸 Use this easy trick to transform barre chords like F into lush open chords you can play all over the fretboard! 👉 Over 600 Song Guitar Lessons With Chords, Tabs, & Lyrics: www.justinguitar.com/songs #justinguitar #guitarforbeginners #guitarlessons
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👉 Video Chapters
00:00 Demonstration
00:21 What are Lifted Barre Chords
01:31 Playing Lifted Barre Chords
09:17 Minor Chord Problems
12:45 The KEY Thing
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@justinguitar 2 жыл бұрын

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@msenecal Жыл бұрын

Leave it to Justin to raise the barre.

@khgriffi Жыл бұрын

lol that was actually pretty good

@sgtrabbi2764 Жыл бұрын

Well played 😉

@jenniferaliceonline Жыл бұрын

Smooth 🤣

@ultrakool Жыл бұрын

fret not

@meself349 Жыл бұрын

Actually I don't think that's correct. He tries to simplify things for people who are trying to learn the guitar. That's not really "raising the bar". Why would he do that? He's trying to make the instrument accessible for everybody.

@51skibum2 Жыл бұрын

This was a great lesson. Interesting how much easier it is to play raised barre rather than standard barre. Especially good for seniors like me with lost flexibility.

@97HawksFly Жыл бұрын

This man is one of the unsung heroes of music. I've heard so many famous musicians saying they learn how to play guitar from his videos. I started watching him 13 years ago and now I'm making a living as a professional producer and play a lot of guitar in my tracks. thank you Justin!

@leascaart Жыл бұрын

That acoustic guitar you're playing sounds so good!!

@ronlight7013 Жыл бұрын

This is one of those rare lessons that hits me exactly where I live. Most lessons I find either too elementary or overly challenging, but this one is just right!

@kevincrilly4292 Жыл бұрын

Great Lesson..I also discovered this chord shape after listening to Alex Lifeson who uses it to brilliant effect in many Rush songs & have often heard it referred to as the Alex Lifeson chord...he is an absolute master of this shape, sometimes strumming it as full chords & sometimes as arpeggiating chords which sounds fantastic...to name a few song examples. First track on Hemispheres Cygnus X-1Book Two Xanadu...Middle Section The Spirit of Radio..Arpeggiated Verse Sections Far Cry...after the initial riff you hear the F Sharp position strum Also as Passing note a similar technique is also used on the Acoustic Guitar intro to Pinball Wizard by The Who where the open top E string is always left open as the underlying chords change.....Also sounds Great..

@gotznachtmann3156 Жыл бұрын

I think Eddie Van Halen used these progressions in his intro to Little Guitars back then. Fine video, really liked it! Thank you. 💐

@andychapman3100 Жыл бұрын

This is a fantastic addition Justin to help with Barre Chords; so much fun and love the clarity of those progressions. Came straight here after getting to grips with your barre chord tutorial on 'Pretty Fly for a White Guy'. Thank you so much! Awesome lesson!

@ronholland-mid-watchmusic2402 Жыл бұрын

Great video! Thanks Justin!

@jpr4212 Жыл бұрын

I particularly like the way Justin manages to tailor his lessons in such a concise, methodical manner, and at a level that is easily understandable wherever you may be on your journey learning guitar. Great work, and really appreciated by all the finger-clumsy mere mortals like myself!

@thevinylreview Жыл бұрын

Great lesson. I’m already experimenting with this. Thanks Justin!

@eduardotrillo3519 Жыл бұрын

love it! thanks Justin!

@ArtStiefel Жыл бұрын

🎸🎸Love this! 🎸🎸Thanks Justin for another brilliant playing insight!! 🎸🎸

@paulwilson1110 Жыл бұрын

Awesome Justin, thank you. Beautiful chords and so simple

@jimgodofbiscuits Жыл бұрын

Great as always...Love the tone of that guitar and amp.

@janrandles8683 Жыл бұрын

Love this Justin! Watching with my breakfast coffee and can't wait to get to the guitar to try these out. Thanks for all the great videos and lessons!

@frankb518 Жыл бұрын

I love it! Been using them myself! Thanks for sharing! Especially on acoustic,. Barrs are tough. And the open / broken are beautiful....

@louisdirect Жыл бұрын

Love this sound! Thank you for the lesson

@OldSilkRoad Жыл бұрын

Wow! Just wow!

@georgestevens1502 Жыл бұрын

Recently I've been using the open E shape sliding it up and down in different positions from high up the fret board and ending by dropping down to the open E while strumming all the strings all the time. The open E at the end of the progression sounds so big and fat that way. Don't even need to put the index on the low E string.

@jacobmueller4845 Жыл бұрын

Great lesson Justin! More lessons on barre chord embellishments would be cool :)

@astrorad2000 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing this.

@edwardoorjitham7714 Жыл бұрын

Thank you Justin!! Love yr vids mate!!

@drewdietz2115 Жыл бұрын

great lesson Justin, thanks

@johnletitia Жыл бұрын

Thanks, a great variation!

@fireflies4677 Жыл бұрын

It's so nice of a trick mate... thanks ....

@anthonyifasi8026 Жыл бұрын

Great lesson Justin 👍 Thank you!

@chrismatheson2561 Жыл бұрын

I learn so much from your videos. Thank you.

@KiwiMC99 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for tips!

@ragmon331 Жыл бұрын

Thank you

@glorioskiola Жыл бұрын

Nice lesson, thanks much!

@Ralphjons Жыл бұрын

Good that. I'll be giving it a go.

@Yu2beFool Жыл бұрын

I've often experimented like this for my own compositions and recently I've been experimenting - quite a lot actually - with the capo and open string progressions. Definitely worth a try also. By the way: thanks for posting this, because finding new chords on guitar is always very inspiring.

@davebowman5392 Жыл бұрын

Who knows where the time goes by Fairport Convention uses many of these, in fact Justin was playing the song without even knowing it, a beautiful song to practice these chords. Also Northern Lights by Rennaisance.

@richardpatwell6729 10 ай бұрын

These lifted barre chords add an ethereal tonal value to praise songs!

@darrinnorris2690 Жыл бұрын

Thank you that was a very useful lesson for an intermediate player!

@maidijk9619 Жыл бұрын

Sounds great!

@TheNeonRabbit Жыл бұрын

Cool trick. Thanks

@mrphil1092 Жыл бұрын

Hey Justin, yea that sounds great just lifting the 1st 2nd strings off the bar gives a great sound, i'v tried it on 5th string bars and it sounds great on some of them as well! Great Tip. Thanks Justin, lot a love.

@lightfoot413 Жыл бұрын

Thanks Justin great and interesting lesson and good sounding barr chords....

@GuitaristPranav Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much.. Always come up with a very useful and interesting content....i have many channels in my subscription list but this is the best of all⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

@garryames1824 Жыл бұрын

Thanks

@soundssimple1 Жыл бұрын

Have used the majors idea before but great tip on the minors, opens up ideas thanks.

@OTR366 Жыл бұрын

This is crazy timing for you to put this out as a lesson. I've been practicing a song with C, G, Am, F chord progression and accidentally did the "lifted" barre chord on the F and immediately noticed a huge difference. Technically wrong but sounds great. I simply got a bit sloppy moving from Am to F and didn't fret strings 1 and 2. I'll have to try the C and G next practice session to see how that sounds in the song. Thanks Justin!!

@johncarlo7395 Жыл бұрын

Nice Justin

@BluesLearner_70 Жыл бұрын

Those lifted bar chords make almost any guitar sound great

@Pbnj1379 Жыл бұрын

No Excuses- Alice In Chains is Ab to Bb with the open 1st and 2nd strings (guitar is tuned down to Eb standard). This is a beautiful technique!!

@discjammer Жыл бұрын

Rooster is also lovely. F# and A with open E string.

@TJ-cg8mq Жыл бұрын

.these are exactly the chord 'alternatives' I use when I play 'Something to Believe In' by Poison. Thanks for inviting us to participate in your experimenting ..:)

@TJ-cg8mq Жыл бұрын

I need to know that this is not a scam .. what exactly are you giving away?

@charlie-obrien Жыл бұрын

@@TJ-cg8mq It's a scam.

@TJ-cg8mq Жыл бұрын

@@charlie-obrien thanks!

@marcosofsky2605 Жыл бұрын

been struggling to teach myself classical guitar and I can hardly wait to get my steel string back tomorrow and try that

@seanbaines Жыл бұрын

Coldplay's song Yellow kind of does this, with the high E string tuned down a half tone, and those two top strings ringing out throughout. The chord shapes do change as we move through the progression, but we're using those two open high strings to kind of sonically tie it all together. Great sound. I stumbled across this "lifted barre" phenomenon myself awhile back while @rsing around on my own, (a bit of time in practice to just experiment and try things is great, IMO!). In fact, I think I was playing with the Yellow idea a bit, and just moving the shapes. I had no idea what to call it, though, or what was going on or how to use it. This video is quite helpful in all 3 ways. Thanks Justin. Very good video.

@BitsOfEternity Жыл бұрын

Makes me want to play that base note on the minor with my thumb. Cheers!

@chrisg7891 Жыл бұрын

John Denver - The Eagle and the Hawk - intro and outro, frets 7 to 5 to 3 to 1 to 0. Beautiful and powerful.

@earthstick Жыл бұрын

Gold

@AlanThwaites Жыл бұрын

John Denver used these type of chords very effectively in his song The Eagle and the Hawk. Thanks Justin.

@fourocker Жыл бұрын

What an awesome tip, it's pretty obvious now but I've never tried because I always thought I had to play it properly so to speak.

@ElrohirGuitar Жыл бұрын

I've been using chords like those for quite some time. I did it kind of as a mistake, liked the sound, and thought: why not.

@don911donny9 Жыл бұрын

Sit Down (next to me) uses an E (open), E (open), A, B progression. Strum DUD with the first two strokes on the treble strings and the 3rd stroke on the base strings

@travishanson166 Жыл бұрын

Now that I have herd this explained, I can now hear it very commonly among heavy rock accoustic tracks. Sevendust angel's son and Mourning by Tantric.

@ryanagovier Жыл бұрын

Apparitions by Matthew Good Band great Canadian band from the 90s starts on a lifted B barre chord

@keithangstadt4950 Жыл бұрын

A similar concept that is useful is using the 3 note power chord shape and allowing the other strings to ring. Works especially well on A string root power chords. “Outside” from Aaron Lewis uses this trick when played acoustically.

@seanbaines Жыл бұрын

Yes. The only difference is you don't have the 3rd in there. That's what that finger on the 3rd string gives you, a 3rd an octave up. A 10th, really. A further wrinkle is to play the moveable barre chord shape, mute the two thin strings, and also mute the octave on the 4th string. Either use you pinky finger to mute, or leave it off and lean the 3rd finger back a bit. That gives you a spread triad sound, with the 1-5 power chord style, and the 3rd played on the 3rd string as a 10th. Great sound, either strummed or individually picked.

@harveybc Жыл бұрын

I've heard the F played without the full bar called a flamingo F. It does give it a bit of a Spanish sound. I do something similar with the Bmin when playing Samba Pa Ti. It is fun playing around and see what sounds good and I've found somethings that sound horrible in one context sound great in another. The Ab+6 and Ebmaj9 is another. (At least to my ears but it is subjective.)

@johnmacmillan627 Жыл бұрын

Still the master!

@rolandoserrano1492 Жыл бұрын

Thanks justin you always show seeds in our minds that help us get out of ruts. Question what strings do you use on the acoustic?

@justinguitar Жыл бұрын

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@heinbldski Жыл бұрын

THIS is the most important tip for every guitar player !

@Strumwith_aryan 5 ай бұрын

Sir at 7:10 you accidentally played chords of a very famous indian song called Choo Lo by the Local Train . You have been a great inspiration and teacher for me . Thanks for all your free courses and guidance. I would love if you could check out some indian songs and give it your own taste. Thanks GuruJi❤

@billjeffers2273 Жыл бұрын

Holy Soundgarden my man!! ❤️

@elderhiker7787 Жыл бұрын

Barre none, Justin is the best.

@adeppisch Жыл бұрын

Thanks Justin for these great-sounding an relatively easy chord shapes. I just experimented, and found that rather than use the index finger for the root note(s) on the E-string, the thumb could be used This would also make transitioning from the major chord to minor chord easier. The middle finger would play the "major third" of the chord, and then the index finger would play the next fret down from it to play the "minor third" note. Perhaps on a wider fretboard and/or with smaller-handed player, this might not be as comfortable and/or possible etc. Thanks for the great ideas, and as usual the great videos. I've been a fan for number of years - keep up the great work!

@jpr4212 Жыл бұрын

Great idea. I'm going to try it right now!

@nickbouvy6524 Жыл бұрын

Bewdy Justin

@tomkennedy6069 Жыл бұрын

This reminds me of the intro to Nice Dream by Radiohead - there's a descending run of open barre chords from 8th fret to 5th fret, so definitely shows that the 6th fret can work as a passing chord!

@dunning125 Жыл бұрын

Thanks, straight away thought this reminded me of something wouldn't have made the connection without your comment

@ShiningHourPop Жыл бұрын

Most of my songs use these shapes! 😀

@ChintanCG Жыл бұрын

didnt know what the chords were called but I stumbled across them accidentally and have used them a lot. I like to play the bass note with thumb on these

@MyShaun09 Жыл бұрын

Melissa by the Allman Brothers uses this method

@joshwmusic6838 Жыл бұрын

Really cool lesson thanks as always Justin. Also me and my mates saw a new British rock/metal band twice this month they are awesome. Check out Kings Of The Sky by Millstone if you like 80s rock and metal

@terryhams1328 Жыл бұрын

Great lesson! And what an amazing sounding guitar! What is it?

@ricardoolde1972 Жыл бұрын

Tis is a great way for playing chords. I am from the Netherlands and we have an artist called Anouk, who has a song called "Sacrifice" . This is played using those chords. Maybe you can check it out once

@williamrobinson7435 Жыл бұрын

These are great! I like the C shape ones, and anything triadic on lower strings with upper pedal notes ringing out can yield a groovy crop of 'let ring modal nicenesses', the key is to get stuck in and experiment! 🎶👍❤️

@paulembleton1733 Жыл бұрын

I’m lazy and a barre-less Am inspired a song, then G, F, and CMaj7/G, whilst singing around the drone on the B and E strings. But I didn’t think to make any use of the “redundant” barre finger. Doh, but also Yay!

@chrishinkle1764 Жыл бұрын

The Alex Lifeson chord...

@roycranman3851 Жыл бұрын

Melissa, by the Allman Brothers uses several of these open "barre" chords and a few more that you didn't show using the Am shape.

@cameronwhite9959 Жыл бұрын

One song I played in a band had a passing C-D change, I slid the open C shape up two frets leaving the G and E open. Apparently that’s an Em9/D! ;-)

@Yu2beFool Жыл бұрын

As an extension you could try the B7 chord. If you mute the sixth string, you can use it almost all over the place. Just the 3rd and 10th sound weird to me. Not to say that these are progressions that can be used in a lot of songs.

@herrunsinn774 Жыл бұрын

I'd be giving you a thumbs-up regardless, Justin, but you cinched it by refreshingly calling it a "trick" instead of the over-used "hack". Thank you! 🙂🙂🙂

@LocalMachine Жыл бұрын

When I first learned Alice in Chains - No Excuses back in the 90s, I discovered open chords.

@svartsjokolade Жыл бұрын

Beat me to it, was going to comment about AIC! Such a great song.

@LocalMachine Жыл бұрын

@@svartsjokolade love it, yes. The whole Jar of Flies album

@LocalMachine Жыл бұрын

@@svartsjokolade I'm still blown away that it was 28 years ago lol

@svartsjokolade Жыл бұрын

@@LocalMachine My favourite AIC song is on that ep, Rotten Apple!

@Mustaine1ify Жыл бұрын

@@svartsjokolade I new someone would mention AIC, what a great band they were/are. I'am currently trying to learn "I Stay Away" quite a tricky one.

@j.d.thompson3505 Жыл бұрын

I would love to have this whole set on 8 track.

@metalmick Жыл бұрын

If you do this trick on F Sharp you get the "Alex Lifeson chord".

@martincox9691 Жыл бұрын

Xanadu!

@metalmick Жыл бұрын

@@martincox9691 And the opening chord in Hemispheres

@nicolewyatt9060 Жыл бұрын

Staind outside is played like this and i want to play barre because it sounds soo much better

@PC-ko6dy Жыл бұрын

Beautiful guitar, Maton? Martin??

@Tracer9GTRider8 Жыл бұрын

I'm trying to learn Barre chords and am struggling. A few of the tunes (Icy Blue Heart - John Hiatt; 8 Days a Week, Nowhere Man - Beatles) have a Bminor so my teacher showed me I can play it as an open chord buuuuuuut don't hit that high E string 😅