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Nader75 Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

corect this please

I'm talking about the barre of the guitar

Which clause is right :

The Principles of Placing Barre or The Principles of Placing the Barre
  

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Nader75The Principles of Placing Barre or The Principles of Placing the Barre
Hi Nader

I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'placing the barre'. The Principles of Playing Barre Chords would make better sense to me.

CB
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Barre is a noun - it's something you can attach across the neck of the guitar.
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Nona The BritBarre is a noun - it's something you can attach across the neck of the guitar.
Hi Nona

I see. I've been playing the guitar for almost 50 years and I never saw a physical object called the barre. Outside England a barre chord is produced by pressing all the strings with one's forefinger on any one of the frets and positioning the rest of o
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Arg - my mistake, sorry, it's been a while since I played guitar. You are right. The device that can create a barre for you is called a CAPO. Sorry! Ignore what I said before - the sentence is incorrect.

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