EVIL B!

Are you sure you're over the flu? It might have affected your brain. With your avid hate for the B I can't believe you're gonna try it. Good luck my friend!!!!

Can you post a link to the vid for us. Any tips and tricks to make the evil B easier are welcome.

Alright, Zurf, lets have it.

Great if you can get a good b going zurf,you are really limiting yourself alot with out it. I had trouble with it and the f but I wanted too play to many songs with them so I really kept stretching fingers,and other body parts too do them.

The way he does it is not to try and make the index barre reach across the entire fretboard, but only the lower strings.  Then he uses several fingers to finger the b, g, d strings.  He does this by cocking his wrist well forward of the fretboard and using the part of his hand between the wrist and the lowest knuckles on his fingers as a cam. 

Here's the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9evL5oWXRU

He does the B in the second song - Still is Still Moving to Me, and it's not really a B but a B shaped chord.  Look at his fretting hand at 2:37 into the video.  It's in the guitar intro of the second song.

*is wondering if this will mellow Zurf about the EVIL B chord??* 

try barring the 4th fret notes with your index finger and playing the root on the low e string w/your pinky. i play barres like that all the time, much easier than the "a" shape...

no, I'm talking about this

x
4
4
4
x
7

where the 4th fret is being played by your index finger bridge and the 7th fret low e string by your pinky. I made a video showing it a couple months ago, can dig it up if you want. it's really not that hard.

you just have to rotate your hand and get your knuckles  parallel to the fretboard and make a little stretch. Similar to playing a walking SRV type bass line with your pinky while holding an open "e" (think "Pride and Joy").

Being that I have no idea how to go about playing Pride and Joy, I'll have to watch the video.  A million thanks.

The fingering BGD is refering to is what I have heard called a "Long B". For a B7 chord the pinkie would be placed at the 5th fret. For a  "long A" chord move everything down the fretboard 2 frets - index finger on the 2 fret, pilkie on the high e - 5th fret. Fot an A7 chord move the pinkie back to the 3rd fret.

I play with some older musicians and these chords fingerings are the only way they make A and B chords. Took me awhile to figure out what they were doing.

Nela

Nela I'd not heard of that...thanks!

Nice inversion lesson.
Hendrix technique...
Do it all the time.

Dm