How To Play F Chord On Guitar

How To Play F Chord On Guitar Video

How To Play F Chord On Guitar Video Transcript

hello I'm cliff Smith and today I'm
going to show you how to play the F
chord now the F chord is one of the the
biggest challenges are think in the
early stages of learning the guitar so I
going to show you three different ways
of playing it so the first one is what's
called the short bar where we played two
strings at once with the same finger so
you explain the term bar so borrow spelt
be ar ar e and it's when you play more
than one string with the same finger for
example here i'm going to play two
strings with my first finger flattening
it down five are three strings three

string bar put across four strings it's
a four string bar five strings we've got
a five string bar six strings at six
string bar so for this first version of
the F chord I'm just going to bar two
strings someone to make a little mark in
my finger here which I want to show you
so I'm not sure if you can see in the
camera there but they have two lines
here when the two strings I was pushing
down and they're on the outside of my
finger finger by the outside I mean the
side that's pointing towards the thumb
here so I do a bar I'm not doing it with
the pad and I'm definitely do not doing

it with the inside of my finger the part
that's facing the middle finger i'm
using the outside of my finger so using
a bar to press down two strings the high
E string of the first fret and the B
string of the first fret in the side of
my finger you can see from here I'm
right next to the threat the threat is
this piece of metal here and I'm right
next to it the further away from the
threat I go the more I need to press it
down the more strength and need to press
it down I'm right next to the nut there
but i can get it but by pressing very
hard but that's not the way i like to do

things the easy way and that's the very
very much the hard way so I'm going to
move close to the first fret okay so i'm
borrowing two strings here the first
thing to make sure you can do with this
F chord is make sure you can get those
two notes
if you can't hear both of those notes at
once you won't be able to get
more notes ringing out another thing to
remember is make sure you're only using
one finger for this you're not using two
fingers or three fingers to push it down
because when you're playing the F chord
you're going to need the other thing is

to play other notes so that's not really
going to help so just one finger
pressing down on the first fret then
you're adding a second finger on the
second fret of the g string
and your third finger on the third fret
of the D string
so we have four notes ringing out you
may find it sounds a bit of this
and you've got some dead notes in there
which is quite normal when you learn in
the F chord most people can't do the F
chord straight away when they first
start trying to learn it so if you can
well done you're in the minority if

you're struggling that's the way is for
most people so don't feel bad about it
just keep working on it I mean
realistically it may take you months to
get the F chord and this is why a lot of
people give up around this time because
it's a challenge and it's a but once you
get past it opens up a whole new world
of the guitar for you so it's really
worth putting the work in but just be
you know don't worry if you're not
getting it straight away because most
people don't I'll show you that again
first thing I go to bar two strings so
the first fret of the high E and the B

string I'm adding my second finger on
the second fret of the g string if you
can't get all three of those ringing you
might have something like that
make sure that your each finger whether
your second finger rather is not
accidentally touching the B string if I
flatten it down it's deadening the B
string if I bring it round of it it's
not now if I had my third finger in on
the 3rd fret of the D string that's
ringing out cleanly but if I allow my
fingers to flatten down a bit like that
now nothing's ringing one fingers
touching the next string underneath it

and we're blocking half the string so
used to make sure you're quite square so
by a square run I mean this is like a 90
degree angle here from the fret board to
my finger I'm making sure my fingers are
bent each finger is bent this joint here
I'm not don't have straight fingers I
have been two fingers like that and
that's what allows me to do that any
exception is the finger that's doing the
bar is a little bit straight so that's
the first way of playing an F chord so
i'll call the short bar because only
borrowing two strings the second way is
another very common web playing is

what's called the full bar for this one
I'm barring all six strings at the first
throw my first finger
I'm adding in my third finger on the
third fret of the a string my fourth
finger on the third for other D string
and my second finger on the second fret
of the g string
I should sell out that so what you may
have when you try this is something like
this I've got a few dead strings there
again used to make sure apart from the
first finger doing the bar the other
three fingers you'd only be touching one
string each if they're touching any
other strings chances are they'll be
deadening them and stopping the notes
from ringing out so generally the short
bar is the easier one of those two most
people find that one easier if you're
taking guitar exams this is grade to
level two this full bar is level 5 grade
5 so considered to be more difficult by
most guitar teachers so you can start
with this one but I do find that some
people actually find this one easier so
I would try both of those and see which
one you get on with ok so there is one
more way I'm going to show you how to
play the F chord maybe you can't do the
full bar you can't do the half bar short
bar there's another version of this
which I'll show you so third finger
third fret D string second finger second
fret g string first finger first fret B
string from there it looks very similar
to the short part of the F chord that
would be this one I'm doing is I'm not
doing a boss I have these three three
fingers down
my first thing of just gently touching
the high string it's not pushing it down
it's important to block that string if I
allow that open E string Turing out
that's an F major 7 chord that's a
different chord that's not the call but
trying to play here so that first finger
is playing 1st fret of the B string is
also very gently touching the high E
string to block that string to stop it
for ringing out if I now strum four
strings from the D string down have
three notes ringing one note dead if I
strum that sounds like that so this is
technically an F major chord was have
the three notes you need for an F major
chord F mmm hey and see if I was to put
the bar down i would have an extra f if
a C F and if I was to do the full bar I
would have ever seen em they see ya so
in that 1i have 3 f's to seize one a in
this short bar I have 2 f's m1a1 see hmm
in the third one I showed you where I'm
blocking the high E string I only have
three notes but I have all three that I
need F hey sis remember if you are gonna
play that one don't let the high E
string ring out
because that's F major 7 it's a
different chord and the other thing to
remember is only play those four strings
if I from all the strings
it's not the sound we're looking for
we're looking for this this sound you
may just about get away of getting an A
in the base there's an inversion of that
cord preferably don't do though and just
strum from the D string down I hope
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