Chords - Key of F

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   Key of F

The key of F is not used too often for guitar in the strumming style at least because it has a lot of barre chords and not a lot of ringing open string ones. It can be a difficult key for beginners if barre chords aren't well known. Here's the group in ascending order:

F _ Gm _ Am _ Bb _ C _ Dmin _ Em7b5 _ F

Here's the progression used in the vid:

F_ Bb_ C_ Dm_ Gm_ Am_ Em7b5 _ F

1 3 2 4 5 6 7 8

See video 2 if you need a hand with barre chords - the guitarist's nightmare and deservedly so :).

Tip: If you need to play a song in F but don't want too many barre chord sounds, you can play in F with a Capo and use open strings.

Place the Capo on fret 1 and use the E family shapes. Sometimes it might be necessary to stay in the key of F if the vocals (or vocalist) demands it :).

A Wah-Wah with some delay is used for effect here, and each chord is strummed just once. The Wah I use myself (and recommend) is the Jim Dunlop Standard Wah. It's a pretty good little moveable box :).

Persist with the barre chords if you have a problem with them. They are not mastered overnight.

Don't 4get to check out video 2 if you need a few tips on learning and playing them.

p.s. Any Thin Lizzy fans out there might recognise the first 4 chords we use here as the same progression used in their classic track 'Southbound'. Not the same chords (Southbound is in a different key), but the same chord interval sequence.



     Lesson Questions, Feedback & Comments



Muris Varajic
post 15th August 2007


Instructor


Another great chapter in the Chords serial David!!
lliber
post 16th August 2007


Member


keep em coming
Andrew Cockburn
post 16th August 2007


Theory Instructor & Moderator


Nice! The wah adds a definate touch of class wink.gif
shredmandan
post 16th August 2007


Member


Good Job
David OToole
post 17th August 2007


Instructor


Yo guys how are yez all - I'm only getting to the forums now and then here with the big move on, but working on getting back to normal asap.

Yes Andrew I like me oul wah now and then - actually one of my fave 'Wah heads' is Brian Robertson from Thin Lizzy, so it was bit of a coincidence that the Lizzy reference I mentioned above was there. It wasn't planned honestly smile.gif.

Talk to yez soon guys + thanx 4 the encouraging posts!

David


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