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Guitar Bar/Barre Chords Tip #3 – Quick Practice Tip

Teacher: Steve Eulberg

About Guitar Bar/Barre Chords Tip #3 – Quick Practice Tip:


Hi this is Steve Eulberg with another Quick Tip with [my] Talent Forge.

Sometimes when I’m playing barre chords, I find that there’s a string that just isn’t playing very straight. I’m not hearing it.

So what I do to test the sound is I push my finger really hard against the strings in the place that I would be playing my barre.

And then I look at my fingers. Often what happens is one of those strings is landing right in the crease of my finger. That’s why I’m not hearing it… because at the place that my finger is the smallest, I have to push down.

That means that I have to adjust my finger so that the meat of my finger is covering the strings that I want to hear.

About Steve Eulberg

An Award-winning multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, Steve Eulberg weaves mountain and hammered dulcimers with a variety of unusual instruments to create thought-provoking, smile-inducing, toe-tapping acoustic experiences. Steve also plays and teaches guitar, bass, piano and hand percussion.

After years of study in the school of musical hard-knocks, Steve earned a Master of Music Education degree from Boston University which informs his equipping and encouraging educational style. He teaches guitar, both kinds of dulcimer, mandolin, autoharp, African hand percussion and Irish Bodhran and Australian didjeridoo.

Steve, is has released 15 recordings, and is featured on numerous others. He has sung and composed for religious communities, union halls, picket lines, inter-faith retreats, mountain-top youth camps, as well as the more familiar venues: clubs, coffeehouses, bookstores, festivals, charity benefits and showcase concerts.

Steve is a member of Local 1000 (AFM), The Folk Alliance, BMI and the National Academy of Recording Sciences.

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