Barre Chords
A Shape Barre ChordsThe A Open Chord Shape
The second most common barre chord shape is the “A Shape”. This is the way I normally play an A major chord:
Free Up the Barre Finger
There are various ways to play this chord. It really doesn’t matter how you play it now, because we are going to free up our 1 finger to act as our temporary capo, then fret the strings 2, 3, and 4 in the second fret like this:
Slide Up One Fret
Sliding the shape up one fret, and adding the barre finger leaves us with the A shape barre in the first fret, or the Bb chord:
Slide Up by Half Steps
Now we will slide the A shape barre up one fret at a time in half step increments, to play the B chord, C chord, C# chord and the D chord.
Modifying the A Shape
Like the E shape, any way we modify an A chord, we can modify the A shape barre chord, and alter each barre chord accordingly. Thus we can use an Am shape, and then move it up the fretboard to create minor chords. We can call this the “Am shape”. Look at the images:
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