
Learn about F Major variations as you learn how to fingerpick the blues on the guitar, from a professional guitar player in this free video music lesson.
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"Okay. F is one of those chords that people really play a lot of different ways. It's not an easy one to play on a guitar, regular sort of standard tuning. You know, the proper way, not that there's any proper way, but the complete way to play an F is just to bar kind of the first fret and then play your E chord just one fret up. Right? So, basically, if you can do that, then you would just add and take away the same notes that you would if you were playing an E. There's just everything shifted up a fret. Right, so you could go. But it gets kind of hard. I mean, you can hear when I'm playing I'm kind of losing control over holding this pressure. So, you know, if you want to kind of, you can simplify it by sort of playing, it's kind of like a C, but it's all moved over one string. And you kind of bar these two, just kind of another way that several chord books will teach you how to play an F. But here, you can, again, kind of add some of the same notes you would in E, just sort of slid up a fret. Okay, so basically, I just added kind of all these three notes basically all on the third fret there. Okay? So that's F."
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