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Originally Posted by Hurricane Ramon

Hello 3woodengulls :

Loosen up man - - literally loosen up the string tension a whole step , and -
continue as normal with out as much strength required to play . I can barre
with normal standard [ E ] but It wasn't the case when I began . I tuned down
a whole step .

This means one big thing , you play longer and in doing so you get to
increase your forearm's strength .

It's in the forearm you get your power to do barre chords period ,
not your hand and fingers albeit they do work as well .

He's a true comparison . I know several athlete musicians who are
strong as oxen and can play barre chords with out effort or fatigue ,
these guys are not what I call pro musicians at all but they can barre
like the devil with out a problem . These dudes are thrash metal players
mostly , some are country pickers though and can wail .

To help you further your ability to have more/stronger stamina I'd pick
up a weight lifters bar and do curls , both the regular and reversed .

https://www.bodybuilding.com/exercis...l-reverse-curl

Guarantee you it won't be an issue in a years time if you do this .

There are two rules about tuning a guitar :

• #1 : There Are No RULES
• #2 : Refer To Rule # 1

EZ :

Hi Ramon,

I agree with rules #1 & #2.

I disagree about doing curls and reverse curls to aid in performing barre chords. I was a State level powerlifting competitor and a State Games champion in martial arts. There aren't many exercise new or old I haven't done (I'm 54) and still hit the gym regularly. No amount of wrist curls will help with forming barre chords, especially in the early stages IMHO.

Once the OP gets the endurance to play for an hour or two using mostly barres, lifting may help with endurance. Strong as I am (for my age anyways), that strength DID NOT translate into easy barre chords - only implementing them into playing did that.

My solution: Play a butt-load of barre chords. I don't think there is a substitute. In the time that it takes to go to the gym and back and perform fairly non-specific exercises, the OP could play 30 minutes of song with 'nuttin but barre chords.