What Is The Hardest Chord To Play On Guitar?

Have you ever wondered: what is the hardest chord to play on guitar?

In this video, I’m going to suggest a few contenders to the hardest guitar chord to play, ever!

To me, 3 elements make a chord hard to play:

#1 – Barring
#2 – Stretching
#3 – Low Frets

It’s the combination of those 3 that makes chords very hard to fret!

I’m going to show you some of my favorite tricky shapes and also some insane chord shapes by the late master of difficult chords: Allan Holdsworth.

Hopefully this will satisfy your curiosity to know what are the hardest chords to play on guitar out there (or to give you a challenge!)

Click on the video above to watch the lesson!