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Originally Posted by Lamenramen
Thanks everyone. Another question: is it common to have trouble playing new barre chord shapes? For example, I've been playing a B minor or A shape or E shape for so long and that's really not a problem.
But say a B minor 7 barre or E7 Barre or putting the pinky 3 frets down from the barre index finger, it's as if my left index finger totally has never seen a barre chord before. Am I using totally different muscles and each of the myriad possible barre chord shapes requires its own strengthening all over again just for each shape? With a barre it does indeed seem this way but with other new cowboy chord shapes it does not seem hard.
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The first paragraph: That sounds like finger strength is not the issue.
The second paragraph: That sounds like the tip of the index finger is extended too far (at least for the minor seventh barre) allowing a crease
under a finger joint to cause a buzz and/or the index finger is a bit arched instead of flat.