Some players refuse to use barre chords, claiming they don't sound as good as open chords. Acoustic bodies do sound their fullest when played in the open position. Actually you do have moreI've heard & read that Jethro Tull's Martin Barre was responsible for "inventing" the "Barre" chord - index finger barred over all 6 strings with the other three fingers forming the chord. Or is it called a "bar" chord because the index finger acts as a bar over all 6 strings? Surely this fretting method was around long before Martin Barre?
Example 3 shows how to get to A9 from A7 using barre chords at the fifth fret—all you need to do is add your fourth finger on string 1. Using open chords, Example 4 demonstrates how to turn E7 into E9. Further up the neck, Example 5 shows how to make a seventh-position E7 chord an E9. Note that the root (E) is on string 5, fret 7, and you can
Actually I think the barre-12 version of the chord does appear in the studio version, if only once (before verse 3, as the first chord after the chorus) and not really as clear as it could be. Later in the song there are chords which definitely have notes above e''.Y8ch4.
bar chords on acoustic guitar
