Using the barre technique, the guitarist can fret a familiar open chord shape, and then transpose, or raise, the chord a number of half-steps higher, similar to the use of a capo. For example, the current chord is an E major and the next is an F major, the guitarist barres the open E major up two frets (two semitones) from the open position to produce a barred F major chord. Such chords are hard to play for beginners due to the pressing of multiple strings with a single finger.