You know you can shift the E-shape barre along the neck to play different barre chords. Now, itās time to step it up! Join Lieven and discover which different flavors of chords are within reach, using the E-shape as starting point. This lesson is aimed at Grade 4 + students who had at least a first experience with āE-shapeā barre chords.
Remember how I said some basic chord shapes can be the the base for a lot of different things, wheter it are textures in your strumming or whole fingerpicking melodies?
Now is the time to explore that.
I want to show you show with examples how the basic E shape barre has more to offer than just majors and majors (with the root on the bottom string).
In the meantime, these example could inspire you to get that E-shape barre practice going.
You know you can shift the E-shape barre along the neck to play different barre chords. Now, itās time to step it up! Join Lieven and discover which different flavors of chords are within reach, using the E-shape as starting point. This lesson is aimed at Grade 4 + students who had at least a first experience with āE-shapeā barre chords.
Lieven, thanks a lot for providing the slide deck in advance, although I wasnāt able to join live I was able to make use of the time going through the deck and checking out some of the links that you provided. thanks again, Ian
Thank you very much for this lesson @LievenDV !! I really meant to post this yesterday, but life got in the way! Anyways, after watching this, for some reason, everything I have learned so far about the E-Shape barre, degrees, a bit of theory knowledge and knowing the Em pent, C maj, Minor Pentatonic and pattern 1 of the major scale. This all came together and clicked like a . Oh thatās the overall picture of this box thing. I hope the bulb was correct!!! Lol. Thanks mate! And of course thanks to Justin and all that made that light click!!
Hi Lieven, I couldnāt attend the live session, so Iām watching the recorded video on YouTube. Question: isnāt the A13 chord you showed us the same as the A6 chord, because both are based on the Amaj (E-shape) but with the pinky on the 7th fret B string (F#) ?
Yes! Thatās it exactly, I can now see that now! Heck I only know what a few of the actually names of the individual string notes, except Roots and strings 1,5,6. Itās all really coming clear why Justinās course is structured the way it is and why he stresses if it sounds good it is!!! That rings in my head all the time, along with practice perfectly, because practice makes permanent!
which is Root (A), Major 3rd (C#), Perfect 5th (E), Major 6th (F#)
A13 Chord: A, C#, E, G, B, F#
which is Root (A), Major 3rd (C#), Perfect 5th (E), Minor 7th (G), 9th (B), 13th (F#)
Itās a bit beyond this lesson but you can use this neat tool to analyse your chords:
When the chord you are building INCLUDES a 7 and you want to ADD a 6, you note it as ā13ā
Look what happens when I replace that 7 with a 6ā¦
The 13 automatically switches to a 6 as well!
Donāt try to form that with your fingers but just look at the dots
Good Evening
Unfortunately I missed the inspiration Club 17, could someone please let me Know if it is possible to watch a recording on You Tube , and what do i need to search for.
Many thanks
Just wanted to say thank you for this excellent club session, Iām currently just watching it through on YouTube. The only barre chord Iāve played to date is F so thereās a lot to process but Iāve grabbed a copy of the slides so I can view them at leisure. Iām only really learning other peopleās songs at the moment but Iām sure I can work this into them!
Hey Lieven,
I used your lesson to try to get back into learning a bit of theory again, ending up doing a Justin Triads lesson, so thanks for that
Two quick thoughts:
I saw you stated that thereās no sound at the beginning of the lesson, but only after doing all my PC checks to see where I was muted. Iād change the YT link to a timestamped one a couple of minutes in like this https://www.youtube.com/live/3Jqir4mD1ZY?si=ifgXLg_uYvVOf_ap&t=158
With chord-shaped hammer-ons, do you strum while youāre playing them? As opposed to single-string hammer-ons, where you donāt pluck the string?
Youāre making life hard for yourself by learning the F. (Lieven mentions this in the lesson).
F barres are much harder, the frets are wider apart, but more importantly, itās beside the raised height of the nut and the strings are much harder to depress. Try learning the same shape up around the 6th fret and when youāre comfortable with that move down the neck
I needed this advice 18 months ago Iāve found it out the hard way! On the plus side I can now play F and it doesnāt fill me with dread when I see it on a song sheet I can see though if Iād initially practiced forming it up the neck and gradually moved up that I might have learned it faster
Haha, perhaps some other poor soul might benefit from the āhackā
On a related point, it took me a while to grasp why they were called E-shaped barre chords (when it was on the F), and A-shaped ones (esp. if they were minor and had exactly the shame āshapeā just one string up!)
. Oh thatās the overall picture of this box thing. I hope the bulb was correct!!! Lol. Thanks mate! And of course thanks to Justin and all that made that light click!!
Iāve found it out the hard way! On the plus side I can now play F and it doesnāt fill me with dread when I see it on a song sheet 
I can see though if Iād initially practiced forming it up the neck and gradually moved up that I might have learned it faster
