Barre chord mastery course offer - £3.70 - ends around 7am tomorrow

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BearBear Frets: 34
edited June 11 in Theory
Well I hope this is the right place to put this, if it isn't or if it's not permitted, please shout up.

I thought I'd give this a shout up just in case it could help someone. 

I have just been to https://guitarmasterymethod.com/   where they're offering a short course in Barre Chord Mastery - Just $5 which is only £3.70.

Offer ends 10/6/25 around 7am tomorrow morning.

Didn’t notice the earthquake due to the bed rocking...

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  • BearBear Frets: 34
    Offer closed.

    Didn’t notice the earthquake due to the bed rocking...

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  • theatreanchortheatreanchor Frets: 2208
    edited June 11
    It's still there, and it's now just $37.

    Happy spending!



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  • BorkBork Frets: 290
    I'm sure it must be legit but the marketing language reads like it should be in the classifieds in the back of a 1980's Judge Dredd comic.  'Discover the secrets of ancient Kung Fu with Master Ken.  Impress girls with your 12 inch punch...'

    [This space for rent]
    Guitars: BQW Custom HSH, Yamaha MSG x3, Ibanez AWD83T, Chandler Custom Strat (VA spec), Hitmaker, 
    Mesa Rack: Lexicon MPXG2, Mesa Triaxis, Rocktron Intellipitch, Mesa 50/50 power amp, Joyo112V x2
    Kemper board: Kemper Stage, Line6 M5, Hotone Loudsters x2, custom Thiele 2x12 with neo creambacks.
    Fender PRII + AC booster, ODR1, Zoom MDR70S, Ocean Machine delay

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  • munckeemunckee Frets: 13861
    Bork said:
    I'm sure it must be legit but the marketing language reads like it should be in the classifieds in the back of a 1980's Judge Dredd comic.  'Discover the secrets of ancient Kung Fu with Master Ken.  Impress girls with your 12 inch punch...'

    Don't knock it if it wasn't for master Ken I'd still be a virgin - oh wait that came out wrong.
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  • BorkBork Frets: 290
    More kleenex needed...?

    [This space for rent]
    Guitars: BQW Custom HSH, Yamaha MSG x3, Ibanez AWD83T, Chandler Custom Strat (VA spec), Hitmaker, 
    Mesa Rack: Lexicon MPXG2, Mesa Triaxis, Rocktron Intellipitch, Mesa 50/50 power amp, Joyo112V x2
    Kemper board: Kemper Stage, Line6 M5, Hotone Loudsters x2, custom Thiele 2x12 with neo creambacks.
    Fender PRII + AC booster, ODR1, Zoom MDR70S, Ocean Machine delay

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  • prowlaprowla Frets: 5395
    Gazillions of people play barre chords, but there's someone who claims to have "The one secret" - yeah, right!

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  • munckeemunckee Frets: 13861
    prowla said:
    Gazillions of people play barre chords, but there's someone who claims to have "The one secret" - yeah, right!

    The secret is use your index finger to make a barre.  I might make a video about it.  
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  • joeWjoeW Frets: 744
    “Years struggling to get a simple barre chord to sound good”.  Perhaps I am the genius I always dreamt I was …
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  • BillDLBillDL Frets: 12158
    Oh yes, after learning all the open chords in the step-by-step tutorials every student arrives at the "dreaded F chord".  When I was learning the rudiments I had a "500 chords in every key" skinny paperback "book" that had numbered dots for fingering.  No drawn-in finger shapes with nice nails or photos of the fretting hand, just dots.  I looked at the Root 5 (A) and Root 6 (E) shapes and it took me a few seconds to see that the index finger had to hold down the strings that would be ringing open at the nut before being moved up the neck.  It took me probably less than a month of practice to fret the barre chords without buzzing and a further month before I was playing Focus - Hocus Pocus type of chord shifting while being able to identify what chords I was playing from the fretted root note.

    I'm not a genius or anything like that, but the practice did involve trying to position my forefinger in the most comfortable and effective way, and I would hazard a guess that not all our fingers are anatomically exactly the same and we therefore all play barre chords slightly different.  The notion that a "secret" can "force your hands" into such a position as to allow us to hold down "perfect barre chords" is just nonsense, and the "struggling for years" claim is just silly.  I have a personal dislike for tutorials that promise to "fast track" you to do anything, eg. these descriptions taken from the Guitar Mastery website:
    • "Write KILLER Guitar Solos in 60 Seconds!"
    • "... you’ll be fast-tracked to strumming, soloing and playing songs quicker than you could imagine".
    • "... perform in front of your friends & family, or crowd of any size,  without spending ridiculous hours practicing".
    • "you’ll discover how to apply the wickedly effective process called 'Rapid Muscle Programming' ...".
    • "Develop your picking speed faster than you ever thought possible!"
    All these promises about how quickly you will assimilate and effect these techniques with minimal practice, yet they and other similar offerings tell you how you can learn at your own pace in the comfort of your own house.  What the hell is all this rush about.  I know we live in a world where lots of people demand instant gratification, and I acknowledge that a video of somebody teaching barre chords is better than numbered fingering dots on a page, but some disciplines in life involve being shown once then performing repetitious practice to achieve the desired results.  Barre chords is one of these disciplines and I don't think being shown once is worth US$37.  Maybe the $5 as was the offer being shown by the OP would be money well spent, but it's a money-making racket when they also have this:

    "Capo Masterclass":
    Normally $97.00 Limited Time Only - Save 52% - Just $47
    Learn how to use a guitar capo just like the professionals. Find out how to play 100’s of songs using the same 4 chords (in the same order).

    That's really just your "500 chords in every key" booklet, where each of the 12 pages shows you the same just chords moved up a fret.

    Sorry to be so scathing about this, but I feel strongly about this promise of speed learning done in expensive chunks.
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  • borntohangborntohang Frets: 435
    edited June 17
    Barre chords (usually F because it's the one that goes with Am and C) are the first hurdle most learners give up at and improvising a solo is the second, so that's what the advertising focuses on. We know neither are really that difficult if you push through and your fingers adapt to the strange position, but there are going to be a chunk of frustrated players wanting to skip the aching fingers phase who will respond well to the 'one magic trick' angle.

    It used to be that your tutor would coach you through with technique and encouragement, but lessons are relatively expensive and youtube is free, which I can't really blame people for at the moment.
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  • KeefyKeefy Frets: 2813
    edited June 17
    I’m self-taught and remember thinking the ‘short form’ moveable F shape (xx3211) was impossible when I first encountered it. I was then fortunate to find a book (‘Rhythm Guitar’ by Harvey Vinson) that took you through the main open chords and the most useful moveable shapes, and taught strumming patterns using standard rhythm notation.

    I used to practice every day and I ‘got’ barre chords within a week or two. The claim about struggling for years is just stupid.

    Edit: No offence intended to the OP who I think was genuinely trying to be helpful. 
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  • GoFishGoFish Frets: 2557
    Looking back it did take me years to make good barre chords - but the ones I managed in the interim were fine at the time, for a beginner, which is what I was. Learning the moveable barre was the first step out of that.

    I too am self taught. It was probably a longer road but with less pressure to hit certain milestones at certain times. No barre, no problem, just move the E shape around like an idiot until I learned something better. Learning as a adult is more difficult and we just don't know what we don't know.
    Ten years too late and still getting it wrong
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  • BillDLBillDL Frets: 12158
    Keefy said:
    ..... I was then fortunate to find a book (‘Rhythm Guitar’ by Harvey Vinson) that took you through the main open chords and the most useful moveable shapes, and taught strumming patterns using standard rhythm notation ......
    Was the Harvey Vinson book the one from his narrow guitar case sized series that showed photos of the hand with nails painted different colours, and the chord charts (and lick / scale tab for another book) showed the fingering using the corresponding coloured dots?  If so I can actually visualise it very well after many, many years.  I may actually still have the "Rock Guitar" (?) one in a box with all the notes I made when I was 18.  My young brother got a guitar after me to try and learn, and bought a Harvey Vinson book.  I looked back at it a couple of years later and realised I had already discovered by trial and error what it was teaching and, having seen that and other similar books after I had learned most of the rudiments, it made me realise just how many approaches there are to teaching guitar playing in book form.
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  • KeefyKeefy Frets: 2813
    BillDL said:
    Keefy said:
    ..... I was then fortunate to find a book (‘Rhythm Guitar’ by Harvey Vinson) that took you through the main open chords and the most useful moveable shapes, and taught strumming patterns using standard rhythm notation ......
    Was the Harvey Vinson book the one from his narrow guitar case sized series that showed photos of the hand with nails painted different colours, and the chord charts (and lick / scale tab for another book) showed the fingering using the corresponding coloured dots?  If so I can actually visualise it very well after many, many years.  I may actually still have the "Rock Guitar" (?) one in a box with all the notes I made when I was 18.  My young brother got a guitar after me to try and learn, and bought a Harvey Vinson book.  I looked back at it a couple of years later and realised I had already discovered by trial and error what it was teaching and, having seen that and other similar books after I had learned most of the rudiments, it made me realise just how many approaches there are to teaching guitar playing in book form.
    No it was a full size book with monochrome photos of (1) hands making chord shapes, (2) 60s rock stars. I went on to work through his ‘Lead Guitar’ book which basically taught you the blues scale in 5 positions.

    Today I take exception to one piece of advice in ‘Rhythm Guitar’, namely that hybrid picking was a road to mediocrity - either you use a plectrum or you fingerpick with thumb and 3 fingers. Meh, I use hybrid picking all the time, it never hurt Albert Lee.

    Also I found it frustrating that I could never get the top string to sound when playing the shape x13331 anywhere on the neck using first finger for the main barre and third finger for the short barre across strings 2-4; I had to use all 3 non-barring fingers for that because the last joint of my third finger just wouldn’t bend backwards enough. These days I don’t worry about it and just play x1333x or xx3331, or even xx333x, depending on the context.
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  • BillDLBillDL Frets: 12158
    I must have been getting a couple of publications muddled up in my hazy memories.  The book my brother had was authored by Denny Laine and used the colours as shown (they missed the green on the pinky nail) in the fretboard chart at the right of the image below, where circles, stars and crescent moons were used to show the different inversions up the neck and how they overlap.  It gives me a weird feeling to see that again after what must be around 30 years since I last handled that book and thought about tossing it in the recycle bin.  Maybe I did.


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  • hollywoodroxhollywoodrox Frets: 5248
    What helped me to learn Barre Chords was Hotel California  I started off with a song that had them for every chord  but switching to hotel California  you’ve got those two at the beginning then a repeat of one at the end with open chords between so it gives you plenty of time . 
    When I’ve taught beginners I’ve advised them to play just one chord per bar slowly & concentrate on getting smooth changes then once they get comfy with the changes they can add more strums & dynamics 
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  • BearBear Frets: 34
    edited June 20
    Yep, advertising is bloody awful, but the courses are good (not the old ones that are being replaced). 
    I own five courses so far, and will add to them when other courses are offered at a bargain price. 
    As long as guitar mastery method are in business, my courses are there to visit time and time again. 

    You do not have to buy into the "VIP pay tonnes of cash each month" BS. 

    Each video lesson in every course has their own pdf print outs. I re worked most of them that I downloaded as they fell a little short of best of what can be done. If it can be made better I'll do it  

    I'm sure that there are rank beginners, or visitors (looking for a safe harbor before their first guitar purchase) on this forum as well as seasoned veterans. 

    If my kids (or maybe in the future grand kids) decide to take up the guitar, then there's instant tuition.  

    Didn’t notice the earthquake due to the bed rocking...

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