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Old 10-06-2017, 04:58 AM
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Originally Posted by RockyRacc00n View Post
I get it now. There is a place in the song where you have to play the G string open. I will try this later but I wonder how that might be... I suppose you will have to release the barre on the G then. I will keep your suggestion in my back pocket. For now, I am inclined to keep at the way it is done in the video.
I use the mini-barre for D a great deal, especially when playing other chords on the second fret. I also second the "people's hands are different" thing. But when I tried this, and I know this will sound weird, but when I thought of it as "hold a D," it was challenging, but when I thought of it only as hold down the middle and ring fingers (like the shape I use for open Em) keeping both my index and pinky free and wiggling around, it was easy. I'm just a beginner, so grain of salt and all that, but I find it matters which fingers I think of as having "weight" (like which foot you're standing on). Sometimes a shift of weight is all that it takes to make something work. YMMV
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