In this lesson we're gonna learn how to play barre chords, which are essential to being able to play the Chuck Berry style, both rhythm and lead. Simply put, if you don't understand the barre chords, you won't be able to figure out where to play solos and where to play single string rounds and double stops and all that fun stuff. It'll also be very difficult to know how to play the chords or anything else that goes into a Chuck Berry song. If you're brand new to guitar, you need to watch this. If you already know how to play barre chords and you could move on to a different a different video keep going. Anyway, the barre chords are simple.

This is what's called a first position barre chord. And this is a G A G major to make a barre chord. We're going to pick this spot here because Chuck Berry played a lot of songs in G. The first finger is going to go across the entire third fret from the Six strength of the first strength it's barring taking the place of the nut. And that's the first thing, your second finger is going to go on the fourth fret of the third string, your ring finger is going to go on the fifth fret of the fifth string, and your pinky on the fifth fret of the fourth string. We've got he first position bar court, we call these first position bar courts. And how do I know this is a G?

Well, that's another part of the of the thing that we need to learn here the topic. I know it's a G, because this note, this third fret of the sixth string is a CI, we go according to the bass notes, for first position barre chords, we go according to the sixth string, and so it's important that you know the notes on the neck of the guitar on the sixth string when you fret the sixth string at every different fret. So simply put the Start Here, go down to the first fret This is an app. So if we play that barre chord shape here, that's an F major, we move it up. That is an F sharp. So that's an F sharp barre chord, we already did G, this would be a flat, the fifth fret, a little bit, one more to the sixth fret, this is B flat, B, C, and so on.

So what you should see here is you could take the same chord shape and move it around on the neck and play about every chord that you need. And also some of the most important chords that Chuck Berry used were based on this shape. He may just have to move one finger or a couple fingers to be able to play it. So the first thing you need to do is learn how to make this chord if you already know how to do it again, skip ahead, not trying to insult your intelligence or your ability. I geared this lesson. series for anyone from an absolute beginner to someone who's been playing a while.

So anyway, got to know those gotta know the first position bar courts. When you start playing solos and Chuck Berry licks, the first position barre chord is the reference that you need to be able to use. So that's the first bar chord first position. Now, of course, we have second position, here's first position in the key of G. Here, second position, and we're playing in the key of C. The way I do this is I put my first finger barring the third fret getting mainly the fifth and the fourth strings. And then my ring finger is going to get the fifth fret of the fourth string and flatten out and get the second and third strings as well. Some people call these power chords, rock and rollers call these power chords.

This is a C major, how do I know it's a C, when we use the second position barcode Now we're looking at the fifth string, third fret of the fifth string is a C. So this is a C chord. And so we've got our first position barre chord, second position barre chord, just like the first position, we can move this around, if I move it this way down one fret with my first finger on the second fret of the fifth string, we have a B, I move it down one more to the first fret of the fifth string, B flat. Let's go back, let's go to the fifth fret with that first finger on the fifth fret of the fifth string. That's a D, move it again, E flat, E, and so on. So what you should do use the charts that I have included and make sure you know how to play both those shapes in all the different keys as many different keys as you can see Barry played primarily he played an F, he played in G, he played B flat, rather than a, he played in C, he had a song and be around and around as in the key of B. I don't remember D too much, he was more of an E flat guy.

And he does have a couple songs in the key of E. Not to say that he doesn't have any songs and other keys, but most of the examples we're going to deal with are in those keys. So make sure you can play both barre chords, both positions in all those keys that I mentioned, and I'll have those listed on a on a handout for you. Now when we get ready to do chord progressions, which is our next lesson, we'll learn some more chords and then we'll learn how to put these all together and make songs in the Chuck Berry style. Again, one more time. If you already know this stuff, then skip ahead and you can start working on on some of the more specific lessons. But we're going to spend the first couple lessons here just making sure you know the basics which will allow you to figure out everything else It's gonna come after this