The Easy Way To Play F on Guitar For Beginners - Without Barre Chords!

Hey everybody! In today's lesson I'm going to show you the easy way to play the F chord on guitar with no barre (that will also help prepare you to eventually play the full F barre chord!) This is a great way for beginners to play easy songs that use F.

Get the best of both worlds! Be able to play your favourite tunes right away and still be preparing for bar chords in the future!

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

0:00 - INTRO
0:48 - BENEFITS OF THIS SHAPE
1:52 - HOW TO PLAY IT
2:41 - SWITCHING TRICKS/TIPS

When getting started, you’re bound to run into a song that uses F… you look it up, and it’s this crazy barre chord!

That’s probably too much for a beginner. It’s always good to try, but at that point your practice time might be better spent working on your rhythm, your ear. But you still want to learn that song...

Rather than put that song on the backburner, we can do something much easier to play:

I call it the "4-Finger Grip" or Easy F Chord!

If you compare it to the barre chord, it actually has the same 4 notes on the middle 4 strings… we’re just missing the outside strings. And if you mute those outside strings, you can drag this shape up and down the fretboard and use it exactly like a barre chord - so you can play sharp and flat chords (like Bb, Ab and G#) really early on!

And because 3 of your fingers are in the same spot on both the easy F, and the F barre chord, it’s a good transition to the real F barre chord.

Also, since it’s so similar to the real F barre chord, a lot of the switching tricks that you would use for the F barre chord will work:

Going from F to C, F to Dm and F to Am.

I hope you enjoy the lesson! See you soon!
-James

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[lacunae]

This shape is really clever ! it is closer to the full chord than what I was using until now AND seems easier. Gonna try it right away and hopefully in a few weeks transition to the full thing. Thank You

[flouisbailey]

Always good instruction and inspiration.

[grantonrigney]

Yo Thank you so much bars throw me off

[bernievail]

You keep touting your free E-book - I keep trying to get it but having no luck. What do I have to do to get the

[Teeeb]

Can u show me how to play this is the day that the lord has made with guitar chord please?thanks

[goffdroid]

🤘🤘 thank you
You have any videos of you really ripping on guitar ? Or any band videos

[rathanahamuduruwo]

Pls teach how to play Eb easily.. Um used to play its barre chord 3rd fret. But having troubles with changing from one chord to Eb