Guitar F chord help

[guitarfinatic69]

Can someone help me? I need a chords that sounds a lot like F, but easy to finger. Thx!!

[OveriseFan]

Practice! Haha.

Here's the alternative:

An F - third fret D string - Ring finger
An A - second fret G string - Middle finger
A "C" and "F" - First frets B and E string - "bar" with index. (it's not that difficult. Just practice making it clean.) Use the "side" of your finger too, not the tip. Does that make sense? The harder, bonier part. Not the fleshy part. If you can't get the higher F, you can leave it off.

Enjoy. But you HAVE to get barre chords down. Keep practicing.

[patrickhowell]

Any combination of the notes will work, just figure out what sounds good for your song. All of these are good possibilities:


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

[OveriseFan]

And there's more than that, too! Haha. I just offered up the "easy" solution so you get most of the sound of the barre chord without having to make it.

However, the "1-3-3", the F Powerchord is not really a solution to her problem. It's a powerchord, so it has no tonal center, when she wants an F Major chord.

It could work in the song, but it's important to note.

[patrickhowell]

But a power chord will work anywhere that a major or minor does, so if it's the best she can do, then it's a good compromise.

[guitarfinatic69]

Thanks for everyones big help!

[The Boathouse]

Try this one

e-x
B-1
G-2
D-3
A-0
E-x

That gives you, from low to high, A, F, A, C. Cool, it's inverted! Oh, and if you hit the high E, it won't kill you. It'll just be a 7th chord. Good shit.

[darkpelican]

Yeah, as a guitarist I have tried to learn as many voicings for every chord I learn as possible. Your taking a very good approach in trying to learn different voicings of the same chord. With a knowledge of inversions your chord progressions can be much more cohesive and polished sounding through a principle known as voice leading.
Keep up the good work!

Here is a very usefull tool for finding chord voicings
http://chordfind.com/

[ReadyForAction]

The best thing to do is to man up and work on it

[leezer]

I had massive trouble with this too and thpught there might be a way round it but its just about practice. Your fingers will get stronger and for ages you will hear buzz but when you get it down you'll have double your guitar playing potential. Learn it on acoustic first. you can just play f as 033210 even thought someone will tell me thats not technically an f, it'll do if your really stuck

[OveriseFan]

I had massive trouble with this too and thpught there might be a way round it but its just about practice. Your fingers will get stronger and for ages you will hear buzz but when you get it down you'll have double your guitar playing potential. Learn it on acoustic first. you can just play f as 033210 even thought someone will tell me thats not technically an f, it'll do if your really stuck

Don't play those open strings or you'll have a 7th chord!

You can play that without the "E"s and you have a 2nd inversion F Chord.

[The Boathouse]

Don't play them or you'll have a 7th chord...since when is a 7th chord a crime? Sheesh.

[leezer]

Don't play those open strings or you'll have a 7th chord!

You can play that without the "E"s and you have a 2nd inversion F Chord.


you're probably right actually as far as playing them open goes it doesn't sound as close to F

[OveriseFan]

Don't play them or you'll have a 7th chord...since when is a 7th chord a crime? Sheesh.

When you want to play F Major, playing an Fmaj7 is usually not the same. There's situations for 7th chords.

It's not a crime, I said nothing of the sorts. I just warned him, that playing those strings open will give you Fmaj7, not F Major.

[eraserhead]

learn barre chords, seriously