What's the hardest chord you ever encountered? (Page 3 of 6)

Hello and welcome to Chordie. Certainly the F chord is not easy to master and I am pleased that you have just about cracked it. Keep at it and very soon you will be wondering about the next hard one to learn.

Take care,

Roger

Hers's a very nice chord. It's somewhat difficult to play, but mainly it's just beautiful.

C Maj 9

e- 3
b- 3
G-4
D-2
A-3
E-3

*for E and A use thumb to push down.

That's right GSE.  "B" isn't even WORTH playing.  Stupid chord.  Why would anyone want to play a B? 

I like where you're going with this. 

Well, since this thread started, Tin Cup Chalice has moved into one of my best songs for playing and the C,G,B7,Em in rapid succession doesn't even give me a bit of pause.  F and F#m and Bm are now pretty consistent chords, though I sometimes still muddle them when trying to stay on beat especially in a Jim Croce song where he throws them out to show off and make campfire pickers like myself jealous of his talent. 

B remains evil.  And now, as GSE has so astutely observed, isn't even worth playing because it's a stupid sounding chord in the first place. 

- Zurf

p.s.  Thank you waiter, I prefer my grapes sour.

I would say B any chord, but, my teacher is pushing them and I am getting a tad better.  However, I'm with Zurf on F#m, it is hard and I can do without it.  THough one of my favorite Jim Croce songs has it.  Oy  I muddle thru.  My biggest challenge is a rapid transition from G to F and back to G on the traditional folk tune "Ground Hog."  Then my fret hand develops major spasms and it's all I can do to keep up with the rest of the String Band class.  OY

Now if there was only something I could do about the "Brain Worms" that I get whenever we play this and certain other folk tunes for long durations. 

Brain Worms......the song that gets stuck in your head and you can't get it out!! 

I agree with the B chord, but I use the cheater chord with two fingers the same as I use the cheater for Bb, just up one more fret.  They sound OK to me.  Maybe not the best sounding, but good enough for me.

Use the barre G.  It's the same shape as F but up two frets.  Then all you have to do is relax your hand, slide up two frets, and retension your fingers. 

G to F to G becomes much easier with the barre, even though barres aren't fun they're funner than G to F to G without them.  Is funner a word? 

Maybe there's a deworming pill like dogs get for heartworms to help with your other problem.   

- Zurf

Thanks. actually the best cure for a brain worm is listening to another catchy tune with my bose headphones.  A tune that I like and hit repeat button several times! 

I'm sure funner is a word, if not, it should be!

Normally for me any chord is really easy, including the barre chords, but the chords that really give me a pain in the neck are the movable chords (used mostly for jazz) On chord in particular is th Gm11 movable chord:

e--x--
B--1--
G--3--
D--3--
A--x--
E--3--

Its might not seem difficult, but there are alot more of those!!!

Any of the Augmented chords are killers, so I ignore them!!

You're pretty much right on the mark, Roger, from a theory standpoint, anyway.   To fret a m11 in that way doesn't make a lot of sense.  That *is* Gm11, but there's a whole lot easier ways to play it.   You're fretting the C on the B string, instead of just barring it all the way across the 3rd fret and hitting it on the A string.  You need the C to make it an 11, and you get that either way.

The modified F was the hardest chord for me. I spent a month and a half trying to play Neil Young's "Old Man" and could only make the F chord ring about 1/4 of the time. One night I got really frustrated and decided it wasn't me, it was the action on my guitar. So I loosened the B and E strings, slipped them out of their grooves in the nut, and started sawing at the grooves with a kitchen knife. Little by little I cut down  the action to where I could use my index finger to fret the B and E to make the F. Somehow I was able to do this without causing the strings to buzz. Just dumb beginner's luck.