Barre chords? Hell, man, I play bluegrass....
I always maintain that the biggest obstacle to mastering barres is failure to have the guitar set up properly.
Especially the action at the nut. An amazing number of folks don't even understand that the action on an acoustic can be adjusted, and if they do they think it's a matter of "filing down the saddle" and that's about it.
If the action at the nut is correct, the effort required for good barre's is greatly reduced.
You can check this quickly by applying a capo. Is the instrument much easier to finger with the capo in place? If so.... You need an adjustment.
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