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.
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.
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!
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..
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!
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!
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!
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.
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.
.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 ..:)
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.
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.
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!!
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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.
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.
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
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.
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!
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.)
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❤
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
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!
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.
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!
Each and every time you move the shape the naming will change. The only constants are the B and E notes from the two open strings. What they are within the chords is not constant. Cheers 😊 | Richard_close2u | JustinGuitar Official Guide & Approved Teacher www.justinguitar.com
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
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 😅
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! 🙂🙂🙂
Another trick to clean up one's playing is to lift the fingers of the left hand when shifting to avoid the "squeaking" sound of the fingers moving along the wound strings. Just an idea.
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! 🎶👍❤️
Anyone who enjoys playing and exploring the guitar should be able to discover this themselves. I'm not much of a guitarist and I did. You must play the damn thing, develop your ear and stop wasting your time learning your favorite music note for note at the exact speed. That song has already been written.
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
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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.
Leave it to Justin to raise the barre.
lol that was actually pretty good
Well played 😉
Smooth 🤣
fret not
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.
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!
That acoustic guitar you're playing sounds so good!!
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..
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!
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!
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!
Great lesson Justin! More lessons on barre chord embellishments would be cool :)
I think Eddie Van Halen used these progressions in his intro to Little Guitars back then. Fine video, really liked it! Thank you. 💐
Great as always...Love the tone of that guitar and amp.
Great video! Thanks Justin!
🎸🎸Love this! 🎸🎸Thanks Justin for another brilliant playing insight!! 🎸🎸
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.
Thank you Justin!! Love yr vids mate!!
Thanks Justin great and interesting lesson and good sounding barr chords....
Thank you that was a very useful lesson for an intermediate player!
It's so nice of a trick mate... thanks ....
Wow. I have not seen your videos in a while. Your production and set look so much better.
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.
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!
I love it! Been using them myself! Thanks for sharing! Especially on acoustic,. Barrs are tough. And the open / broken are beautiful....
Love this sound! Thank you for the lesson
.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 ..:)
I need to know that this is not a scam .. what exactly are you giving away?
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It's a scam.
@@charlie-obrien thanks!
Nice lesson, thanks much!
Great lesson. I’m already experimenting with this. Thanks Justin!
Good that. I'll be giving it a go.
I learn so much from your videos. Thank you.
love it! thanks Justin!
Wow! Just wow!
great lesson Justin, thanks
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.
Sounds great!
Awesome Justin, thank you. Beautiful chords and so simple
Have used the majors idea before but great tip on the minors, opens up ideas thanks.
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.
I first came across this lifted barre technique in the beautiful Sandy Denny Song., 'Who knows where the time goes'
John Denver - The Eagle and the Hawk - intro and outro, frets 7 to 5 to 3 to 1 to 0. Beautiful and powerful.
Melissa by the Allman Brothers uses this method
been struggling to teach myself classical guitar and I can hardly wait to get my steel string back tomorrow and try that
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!!
Rooster is also lovely. F# and A with open E string.
Thanks for tips!
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!!
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⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
These lifted barre chords add an ethereal tonal value to praise songs!
John Denver used these type of chords very effectively in his song The Eagle and the Hawk. Thanks Justin.
Cool trick. Thanks
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.
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.
Great lesson! And what an amazing sounding guitar! What is it?
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?
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Cheers 😊
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Nice Justin
Apparitions by Matthew Good Band great Canadian band from the 90s starts on a lifted B barre chord
Beautiful guitar, Maton? Martin??
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
Makes me want to play that base note on the minor with my thumb. Cheers!
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.
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!
Great idea. I'm going to try it right now!
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.)
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.
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❤
Thank you
Thanks
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.
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.
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.
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
Does this technique pose pitching problems for vocalists?
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!
Thanks, straight away thought this reminded me of something wouldn't have made the connection without your comment
Holy Soundgarden my man!! ❤️
THIS is the most important tip for every guitar player !
Those lifted bar chords make almost any guitar sound great
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.
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!
Would I be correct in saying that it's a power chord with the octave plus the 9th? Looking at it another way.
Each and every time you move the shape the naming will change. The only constants are the B and E notes from the two open strings. What they are within the chords is not constant.
Cheers 😊
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Barre none, Justin is the best.
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
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! ;-)
Still the master!
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 😅
Do these barre chords work when using a capo?
Yes, everything moves relative to the capo. Cheers 😊
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Hi Justin Would it work with David Greys The one I love he uses the open chords G,D,C and A.minor with a capo on the 5th fret.
David Gray actually uses this kind of chords on Sail Away, the minor versin of it, on the intro and the 1st two chords of the verses. Capo 1st fret.
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! 🙂🙂🙂
Bewdy Justin
My 5th string barring technique is so poor that sometimes I get pretty funky sounds out of the high E string whether I want them or not!😆
very cool. But not all guitars are going to sound like a froggy bottom. amazing tone out of that axe
Another trick to clean up one's playing is to lift the fingers of the left hand when shifting to avoid the "squeaking" sound of the fingers moving along the wound strings. Just an idea.
Something in the air.
Most of my songs use these shapes! 😀
When I first learned Alice in Chains - No Excuses back in the 90s, I discovered open chords.
Beat me to it, was going to comment about AIC! Such a great song.
@@svartsjokolade love it, yes. The whole Jar of Flies album
@@svartsjokolade I'm still blown away that it was 28 years ago lol
@@LocalMachine My favourite AIC song is on that ep, Rotten Apple!
@@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.
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! 🎶👍❤️
Gold
Anyone who enjoys playing and exploring the guitar should be able to discover this themselves. I'm not much of a guitarist and I did. You must play the damn thing, develop your ear and stop wasting your time learning your favorite music note for note at the exact speed. That song has already been written.
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
Staind outside is played like this and i want to play barre because it sounds soo much better
Ah, yes, the infamous Alex Liefson chord.
I would love to have this whole set on 8 track.
I believe 'Nice Dream' by Radiohead utilises a similar idea 👍
If you do this trick on F Sharp you get the "Alex Lifeson chord".
Xanadu!
@@martincox9691 And the opening chord in Hemispheres
That guitar sounds awesome - anybody know what it is?