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Old 11-26-2014, 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by gdbird View Post
Picked the guitar back up 6 months or so ago...after about 30 years. Didn't have a lot of trouble finding the chords again and have been playing a little of every genre (not well, but playing) I've spent a considerable amount of time learning some blues riffs and leads (Ami and some Clapton unplugged stuff) .

All of a sudden, I can't play a Barre chord! Muted strings, not able to get chord shapes to form correctly. What the heck?
It is a topic that has been covered in extreme minutia in numerous prior threads - areas of discussion such as hand and arm position, flat versus curved index finger with various chord shapes, fret distance, roll back, doubling up, temporal fluctuations in pressure requirements, guitar setup and how to check, etc.
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