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Hey everyone I'm new ... trying to teach my self how to play ... and don't have anyone to ask about this sort of thing. I'm looking ofer a tab for a song (in half step down)ans is says I need an a chord. Fore the life of me I can't seem to find how to forme one in half step down and it is driveing me bonkers. Any help would be much appresheated

So you tuned the whole guitar down a half step? If you're a half step down, I guess you'd play an A this way:



...but instead of that 2-3-4 thing, I'd just lay over all of those hard with my pinky, and let the high string be dead. In fact, both the top and bottom string can be dead and the chord will sound better.

Hope that helps.

Or...maybe you mean you're in normal tuning, and you need to play the chord that's a half step down from A?

If so, that's an A flat chord:



You put your first finger all the way across the strings just below the 4th fret, and fingers 2, 3 and 4 form what looks like an E chord.

If you're going to look for the "real" chord when you're half step down, might that cause a problem all the way around? Can you just play it in the key it's showing you by any chance? Or maybe capo up one fret, and play the chords they're suggesting if you (for some reason) can't come up to pitch?

Mark's covered the other options.

Barry

Hey thanks for the quick response but I thing I got it tunned the whole thing 1/2 step down and did
d#--0--
--3--
--0--
--2--
--0--
D#--x--
I guess when I tryied ti the first times I was accidentily muteing the d#(normaly high e) string so it sounded flat and like crap little bit of hand shift and it worked out fine thanks again for shuc a quick reply.