![]() ![]() ".As you've seen, "bent Bar" means as you supposed it to mean, and as JPD pointed out, Parkening has been calling them "cross-fret bars” for decades. Instead, try getting the G's in this passage on the fourth and fifth strings as needed, so that the C's, D's and E's played along the third string don't get cut off. Inexplicably, most people seem to do it this way, even though it sounds stupid. A predicate to this discussion is the recommendation that from the end of measure 4 through meaure 8, that the notes along the third string not be played in alternation with the G on the open string. Here is an excerpt from a contribution of mine to one such discussion, which has it's entry on the topic of "bent bars". Is there a trick to playing this chord? I can't seem to properly squeeze all my fingers inside the 10th frets. Playing the famous recuerdos de la alhambra and of course we have the infamous F Major chord at fret 8 (based on A Major shape). I extend it as far as I can, maybe even slightly off the top of the neck and twist my hand as you said and it aligns the fingers behind the fret nicely!! #F bar chord on guitar update** UPDATE _ A "soft" barre does make it easy. maybe for Xmas! I don't use a barre though for the F Major, but I'll try it. Thanks, I've gotta get this "Duncan" book. And if there is a horizontal rotation, is it the whole hand or just the pinky side that is rotated. While I see a horizontal rotation in Duncan's photo, I don't know if others see the same thing. I'm not confident about the horizontal rotation part. The thing is I bet you are already doing Duncan's technique since it seems to be pretty much forced, so hopefully there are more tricks or ideas. So to transition from the C-major CAGED chord at the 8th fret to the CAGED F-chord one would laterally and vertically rotate the pinky side of the hand. Now when the fingers are placed on the 10th fret, the pinky side of the hand is rotated upwards. ![]() At this point the fingers are much more aligned to the vertical frets. However, the hand is rotated laterally so that the pinky side of the hand is horizontally quite a distance away from the neck. The index finger just bars in the normal way so that the left side of the hand is in normal position relative to the neck. The simple idea is that if you hold your left palm out in front of you and rotate your hand counter clockwise, the fingers align to the vertical frets. ![]() However, I claim that his photo also shows a horizontal rotation, which I shall include in my take but you can ignore if you think better. Duncan mentions a vertical rotation (outward turn of hand) but not a horizontal rotation. This takes a small rotation of the forearm, pivoting from the elbow and on the tip of the thumb.ĭuncan also gives a photo, which I will try to express in words. Duncan wrote:Here on whenever fingers are similarly compacted in a close spacing some outward turn of the hand is natural. ![]()
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