Bar Chords Who Needs Them Anyway?

Every Guitarist needs bar chords…without them we could only play a handful of songs.

Did you know that you can only play in 3 keys without using bar chords? And even that’s not completely true because even those 3 keys contain some bar chords. (pretty limiting!)

The 3 main Chords in the key of  D major- A major & G major can be played using open chords alone. Open chords are considered to be the easy chords to play on the guitar…sometimes called cowboy chords or campfire chords.

Lets look at the 3 chords for each of those keys I mentioned before.

The 3 main chords for D major are D-A-G
The 3 chords for A major are A-D-E
& for G major it’s G-C-D.

As long as the songs you are learning contain A-C-E-D or G you can play it.

You can also play A minor- D minor and E minor as open chords as well. But that’s it, you’re limited to 8 chords.
if you want to learn a song that has any other chords you will have to play bar chords.

That’s the BAD NEWS…

The GOOD NEWS is bar chords can be learned quicker and easier with correct instruction. Guitar In 60 Seconds gives you bar chord exercises and examples that will have you playing all 4 bar chord shapes quicker than you ever thought possible. Check it out today.