F Major Chord

The F Major Chord is, for many beginners, one of the most difficult chords they will learn. On this particular chord we start by advising you will need to arm yourself of patience and dedication, since while challenging, the results of getting the chord to sound right can be very rewarding. And, what you learn while playing it will be of great help on learning how to play other chords.

The main difficulty of playing the F Major Chord is having to use just one finger in your fretting hand to hold down more than one note at a time.

To get the F Major shape your third finger plays the third fret on the 4th string. Your second finger plays the second fret on the 3rd string. And, your first finger plays the first fret on both the 2nd and 1st strings. Now, When you are playing this chord on the guitar, make sure that you are not playing the sixth and fifth strings.

Now, there are ways to getting to play this chord correctly. One technique favored by many recognized guitar players is that they slightly roll the first finger towards the headstock of the guitar, to some that makes the chord easier to hit. Now, bare in mind that this technique doesn't necessarily work for everyone, if you have tried it and it doesn't work. Test each string. Play each string one at a time, until you find which might be the problem. Don't worry if you don't seem to get it at first, and don't get frustrated, this chord is pretty difficult at first. Practice it every chance you get, you'll see that once you have practiced enough the chord will start sounding just as good as all the others.

Now at the top of the page we said that achieving this chord is rewarding, this is because many popular songs require for you to master the F Major Chord while playing the guitar. Also, learning to play it, will prepare your hand to play other similar chords.