no i think so.. there are just "guidelines" which should let you play the most efficient.

Oh my.. thank you for the really useful and detailed explanation, would have never thought of this..

Depends on the circumstance. For your first example, I'd probably roll the finger. For the second, I'd barre them both. barre them? but how would yo...

Yes, I use my fingers the same way smokehouse explained it (mostly). Sometimes I only use the first three fingers (bad habit, i think)

oh yeah i know that problem too good.especially in the evening, when my fingers itch the most it's impossible to play.@peavy: maybe u coud turn the vo...

Oh yeah David Hodge = god (and i don't want to offend any religous people with this statement).His lessons are the shiznit and definitely helped getti...

i don't know the song either, but it looks like the standard G e C D thing. so it may be right..and about the format: i saw different ways to write do...

jimi hendrix, chuck berry (if you play rock'n'roll you play it like chuck), angus young (the first solo i learnt was of back in black), slash, and man...

the spoons so u're the man the song is about... loli really like to start playing the uke..i used to play clarinet but gave it up years ago..

no if you play 1,3,5 it'sd a major chord and that doesn't sound dissonant, i think the third is rather removed because it sound more direct and roughe...

sry doublepost.. <--------- but i'm a newbie

some kind of sturdy leave.. was good enough for strumming tough... cardboard cutouts are good but don't last long :(

you could just stick to practicing the e-shape-barre chord a lot, then you would practice the three-finger powerchord automatically too.