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Barre chords take an investment of practice and (at first) pain. Once that investment is made, they stop being hard, if your guitar is set up at least semi-properly. (At least, they stop being hard in reasonably small/intermittent doses; playing barre chords for three or four minutes without a break can still tire me out.) You just gotta keep doing it till the guitar stops fighting you. It takes a while.
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Also, small thing, but it looks like you’re sitting on a bed — try sitting on a hard chair, like a dining chair, and see if that helps. I find it much harder to play guitar when I’m sitting on anything soft. (I can’t for the life of me figure out how people play sitting on couches.) It’s much easier when I’m sitting up straight, or leaning forward a little, with something solid supporting me. (Please take all this with a grain of salt — I am neither a guitar teacher nor an expert in biomechanics, and I could be wildly wrong. These are just things that struck me as I watched.) *EDIT: I do mean slightly, maybe just an inch or two. You don’t want your elbow to be poking out to the side — you just want to free it up so your forearm can get more involved.
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I've owned several guitars over the years and none of them came setup correctly at the nut. If you fret any string at the second fret you should see the tiniest amount of space between the bottom of the string and the first fret. You can easily see how much space there should be by fretting the string at the third fret and looking at the space at the second fret. If the space at the first fret from fretting at the second is higher than that, your string at the nut is too high. It should be no harder to fret a string at the first fret than any other fret on the guitar. If you find that space to be too high using this method, take your guitar to a good luthier and have him file the nut slots lower.
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