What are the most important barre chord shapes Guitarist and Ukulele players should know?

Are you stuck with the open chords and looking for a way out? Normally as a beginner the most important chords you should learn are the open chords. Before you can properly start playing barre chords, it is important you know those open chord because barre chord are derived from open chords.
A perfect example is the E major chord(using the standard guitar tuning EADGBE). Moving your fingers down to the next fret and creating a bar with your index finger will for an F major bar chord. Moving it down another step will form the F# barre chord and that\’s how the chords are formed, LEARN ALL CHORD SHAPES.

Learning how to play the Minor Barr chords is very easy, depending on your rehearsals. The minor barre chords can be gotten from Am open chord. All you have to do is move your fingers down the fret board like the F major chord. If you know the Notes on you major scale, then it will be easy understanding these steps. So moving your hand down each fret board, you\’ll be able to derive A#m-Bm-Cm-C#m-Dm etc.

E and A are the shapes that make those chords on open strings. You just add a Barre before them and move them around the neck. Their importance is that a lot of more complex chords are based on them. The commonest minor chord shapes are also based on them, by the way. If you know how to play an A7, Adim, Asus4 -13, Am, Am7, Amaj7, and so on in the open position, you can do the same with barre chords.

A barre is much easier up around the 5th fret. You can practice them there (an E shape will give you an A chord, and A shape will yield a D chord, and a C shape will give an F), then move towards the nut as you get more use to the pressure.
Or, another approach will be to raise the pitch of your guitar a half-step by putting a capo on that first fret, and then playing like normal – forgetting about the capo. With the capo on, the string is pressed across that first fret, you only have to press it down a little further to get it to sound nice against that second fret. It is already a good bit lower than it was in full open position.  You can use free tab generator to generate the chord shapes of any chord.
This will work well in that you can play all your chords as normal -forgetting the capo- they will just be a 1/2 step up. Your “F” will actually be an “F+”, but we can let that be a secret unless you are playing with other people.
The only down sides would be that this will not work when playing with others, unless you tell them, and they also capo up, and if you are also working on things like soloing up the neck where you are looking at the reference marks, they will be 1 fret off.

It\’s very easy learning these shapes and it will be of great benefit because of the fact that you can play on all keys. all you need to know is read. In term of usefulness and relatively simple to use i would say E shape and A shape and also their minors as per CAGED rule. The D and C shape is good finger picking and when you are using treble strings. G is the hardest to master.

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