Thread: "B" chord
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Old 08-15-2005, 04:19 PM
Pigfarm Pigfarm is offline
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Heya Sporty! You really made me laugh. I started playing about 3 months ago, and said the same thing! Click here if you wish to read my rant on the entire chord of B.

The best advice I can give you, as one newbie to another, is this:

A "correct" B chord is a barre chord like this
2
4
4
4
2
X

The first challenge to tackle is barre chords themselves. If you're like I was, You can barely make a barre chord RING once! It's hard because the finger strenght isn't there yet, but that will come with time (about, oh, 3 months work for me!).

The second challenge is with the B chord itself. I can't shove all 3 of my sausage fingers on the fourth fret. So, instead, when I need to play a B chord, I end up playing a slight variation, a Bsus2 (correct me if I'm wrong), which looks like:
2
2
4
4
2
X

That works for me. Hope that helps! If not, do what I did and boycott the B note entirely!
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