Let's tackle the E form first.
When we were first looking at the E chord, I had you fret the E chord like this.
With your pointer finger or your first finger free.
Basically what we are going to do is practice moving this chord form around the neck before we even make it a bar chord.
Take the E chord and then move everything up keeping them within the same fret range.
Meaning you are going to have your second finger one fret behind your third and your fourth fingers
but we are going to move the whole shape up the neck.
Up to where our third and fourth fingers are up on the twelfth fret.
That's going to look like this.
Then back down.
I'm sorry that was the fourteenth fret not the twelfth fret.
Essentially what you are doing when you bar a chord is you're combining a bar technique
with moving this same form around the neck.
Here is that bar technique and what I recommend is that you practice that drill that we just did
and look in the supplemental material section to get the exact tablature for that last drill.
Here is the bar technique that you are going to use and you are going to move that up from open
all the way up to the twelfth fret when you practice.
Make sure that when you are doing this and we talked about hand positioning in another lesson
but make sure you've got your hand position like this
where your thumb is directly between your first and second finger so it's supporting those fingers.
You're going to take your first finger on your left hand and for this example we are going to use the third fret.
Place the thumb joint on the hump of the neck and then place your first finger over all of the strings
and you're going to squeeze thumb to index finger, thumb to first finger.
Do not put the rest of your fingers on there to support.
You just want to be using your finger because these fingers are going to be fretting notes over here for a chord pretty soon.
So go to the third fret hold that down and strum.
Make sure all the strings are coming through cleanly and then you want to do the same thing you were doing before
with the chords doing that chord pushup idea.
Once you've got the third fret down then start with open then go first fret which is going to be by far the most difficult.
Second fret, Third fret.
Making sure it's clean all the way up the neck.
Then back down.
The tendency down here especially is going to be to want to get all those fingers over there to make that nice and tight
but you can't do that because you are going to be using those fingers to do chords.
Once you've done this exercise the bar exercise and you've moved your E chord around several times
it's time to combine them.