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Now, use that as your baseline to align your fretting hand on the guitar. Yes, you will shift for stretches, but try to return to that position as much as possible. On your picking hand, try to keep your knuckles parallel to the strings. HTH |
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That doesn't apply to a guitar neck: it won't fly out of your hands or be dropped. When barreing strings on a a guitar, the index (first) finger is generally parallel to and opposing the index finger. The action is like just pinching the thumb and index finger together, much like trying to open a clothes pin. Much too much is made of the difficulty of barre chords. The barre requires two things, as many have already noted. The first is good technique. Taught good technique, most beginners can easily master the basic barre. The second is a well setup guitar: a well setup guitar is physically easier to play. With a well setup guitar, the barre chord does not take a great amount of hand/finger strength. Many attempt to replace good technique with brute force. With good instruction, most beginners can play a basic barre within minutes: it doesn't take years of struggling to accomplish it. The short answer is that if you continue to struggle with a basic barre chord look to either your technique or the setup of your instrument. Last edited by charles Tauber; 12-06-2019 at 10:11 AM. |
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I would try practicing the chord at the 7th fret which should give you a bit more leverage because your arm is closer to your body. Once you start nailing the chord up the neck, work it down over time.
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The pencil exercise shows how the thumb remains central when spreading the fingers apart - it supports all fingers from an average central position. It's a good guide as to how one supports the fretting fingers on the guitar. But.... Quote:
Personally, however, I find barres more efficient when my thumb is pressing opposite the fret above the index, not directly opposite the index. YMMV. Quote:
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Thanks everyone. I appreciate it. I went through all the posts and it does not seem to be a technique issue. It is getting better now. Yesterday it was there for the most part. So I think in a few days this issue will be past me.
I will get a setup and most likely go to extra light strings. I know some feel that you lose some tone and while that is probably true I think losing a drop of tone that I wont notice is better than a sore finger or terrible sounding notes! Thank you all. |