#baelthazar

My C chord always sounds a bit funny, you kinda just get used to it. Have you tried F yet? That on is a doozy

niennanir

I second F. I also second getting a guitar with a narrower neck

sailorsol

F is the worst! And G can be a bit tricky too.

This is all fascinating, because I’m having no trouble with G at all (I actually really like G, but I am weirdly partial to G in general, I love it on the uke too and tend to write songs in G). I’m having a slight struggle with F in terms of my hand cramping when I play it (partially due to some bandaged fingers from a cut while cooking), but I’m not having trouble making it sound like F. 

Whereas with C it both hurts to do the chording AND ALSO sounds very wrong. And I can’t diagnose WHY it’s wrong, like I think I’m probably not fretting properly and also I know I’m tending to brush the high E when fretting the B string above it, but even when I lay the guitar down and very carefully only fret the C chord, it sounds terrible. I’ve checked my tuning, I even got one of the ukes off the rack and played a C to compare, and it sounds...it sounds like it’s maybe sharp somehow? 

There’s also an issue with the pitch of the guitar regardless, it’s lower than I like to sing, so I’m going to get a capo and see if that helps. For now I’m actually chording the A and B strings and strumming lightly, a trick I learned to play a non-barre E on the uke (there’s a certain way to play E on uke where you fret two strings and just strum super light). 

baelthazar

Should we tell you about bar chords?

wynjara

I want to have Words with whoever invented bar chords.

LOL I am well familiar with bar chords from the ukulele, where they’re bad enough -- I had hoped they might be easier or at least less common on the guitar, but I see that is not the case...

iswearidontevenknow

Are you having problems with C specifically or is it changing from C into G and vice versa? If you do the pinky version of G (pinky on the high E, ring on the low E, middle on the A) it can the transition a lot easier

Well, I’m struggling with transitions in general right now but that’s just lack of experience/muscle memory -- my folks got me the guitar for Christmas and I wasn’t able to actually get it until this month, so last night was my second or third time ever even trying to play. Right now I’m pulling up tabs (mainly songs I learned to play Uke with) on one half of the screen and common chords on the other and trying to get through them, but so many of my tabs are in C that the Struggle Is Real.

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Not that I don't appreciate this choice gif but

dad

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