Easy Barre Chord Exercises

Now let's take a look at some exercises you can use to practice your barre chords chords with the metronome. There are 3 overall elements to this: the mechanics of fretting, the navigating and naming the barre chords, and finally switching between the different voicings.

Once again, the idea is to figure out which area you need to develop, then hone in on that. So I'm going to show you a bunch of different examples of exercises, and then you can come up with your own exercises that can help you improve something specific.

Because barre chords are physically demanding to play, we'll do a workout here where we press down the chord, then release, then press down again, and so on, using a minor barre chord shape.

We'll also call out the names of the chords, and shift between several combinations of barre chord voicings. Over time, you can increase the distance between chords, and shift at faster tempos.