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Originally Posted by J-Doug
I don't play a lot of barre chords anymore but what works for me is to rotate the index finger a bit so that I'm barring more with the left edge of the finger. Hope that makes sense. I also tuck my elbow in a bit toward my side.
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It does, and I'm trying. I think it's just going to take a lot of practice. They don't sound good against the open chords that I'm playing, so it's causing a bit of frustration.
On the other hand, I love the lightbulb moments. I pulled out my Beatles chord book and found Norwegian Wood. Slapped on the capo and off I went. The book has you going from D to Cadd9 (leaving the e string open) to G/B. I rolled through it a few times slowly, and then realized that I just leave my ring finger planted and move my index/middle to form the chords. Then got to a Dm-Em7-A progression, and realized the same thing. I've noticed that I'm getting better in thinking about finger placement. Makes things much easier (and smoother) than picking up and changing all of them.
It's the little things.
