Guitar Question

[Cunning Linguist]

I just started learning to play acoustic guitar. I have no freakin clue how to play the following tab.

--3----------------3----------------1--------3-------------
--3----------------5----------------1--------3-------------
--4----------------5----------------2--------4-------------
--5----------------5----------------3--------5-------------
--5----------------3----------------3--------5-------------
--3----------------3----------------1--------3-------------


How am I supposed to hold down all of those notes simultaneously?
Anybody care to tell me what fingers go where to make it possible? I sure can't figure it out.

[MelchyBeau]

have one finger hold down a whole set of notes for example. for the first set of notes use your pointer to hold down all the strings on the third fret. The other notes should be easy to figure out

Melch

[Macdaddy Warsaw]

Aren't these called barre chords?

[MelchyBeau]

yes, and he better learn to play them well, cause they are everywhere

melch

[SossMan]

[ QUOTE ]
I just started learning to play acoustic guitar. I have no freakin clue how to play the following tab.

--3----------------3----------------1--------3-------------
--3----------------5----------------1--------3-------------
--4----------------5----------------2--------4-------------
--5----------------5----------------3--------5-------------
--5----------------3----------------3--------5-------------
--3----------------3----------------1--------3-------------


How am I supposed to hold down all of those notes simultaneously?
Anybody care to tell me what fingers go where to make it possible? I sure can't figure it out.

[/ QUOTE ]


you don't have 6 fingers?

ummm, have you tried drumming? that dude from def leapord only had 5 fingers. total.

[Cunning Linguist]

[ QUOTE ]
yes, and he better learn to play them well, cause they are everywhere

[/ QUOTE ]

Damn, because they are still giving me a fair amount of trouble.
Thanks for the help.

[zephed]

http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/1179/barrechord32dd.jpg

[whiskeytown]

takes a long time to build up finger strenegth -

personally, I usually skip to the two and just play the first 3 or 4 - in rock guitar, you almost never strum all 6 strings - usually 3 or 4 - just pick the 3 or 4

RB

[zephed]

If your index finger is not keeping the string firmly pressed against the fret (muffled strings), try slightly rotating that finger so that the side of your finger is pressing the string down.

Sometimes the bottom of your hand is too fleshy to hold it down firmly, so you want the bony part holding it down.

[Wetdog]

[ QUOTE ]
http://img361.imageshack.us/img361/1179/barrechord32dd.jpg

[/ QUOTE ]

F

[AdamL]

You could use your thumb for the Low E... hey, Hendrix did it. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Wetdog]

But he played a right handed guitar upside down didn't he?