Hello Tatyana, very interesting. I will keep in mind when I have to do the barré, to the shift weight. It is difficult to get always a good sound with the barré. If you try to play on unusual keys, you have to do a lot of barrés. Carcassi wrote preludes in all keys in the method, but the unusual keys are quite difficult, because you have to do a lot of barrés. I subscribe, regards from Spain, Ramón.
I’ve been playing guitar for 26 years, and moving up and down the fretboard cleanly after barre is my biggest problem in performance. Thanks for the exercise.
I'm currently working on Fernando Sor Op 31 No 20 (Segovia study No 9). It's my first exercise with more than just one or two barre chords and, I must say, it's quite the challenge. I will add your pressure exercise to my daily warmup and either I'll go insane, or improve. :-)
Years ago I realised you don't allways need to express every string under the barre and can sometimes just press the 5 and 1 string in a DMajor 5th position for example.
Another helpful tip would be taking the help of gravity (relaxing your arm slightly) instead of pressing hard at the strings horizontally! Great vid Tatyana!
Hey Tatyana! Great video on a technique we all have to do no matter what style of music you play! Thanks for the tips and through out insight with a great explanation!
thank you for this exercise, it looks very interesting, I will try and can also make it work for my students. To work the barre I place from fret 1 to 8 by relaxing between each barre then the same thing from 8 to 1. After that I add chord positions (E A D C ...). in any case thank you for your videos.
