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  • @JB when I started out my fingers felt like fat sausages, I couldn’t strike a clean note. Imagine then first chord ‘A Major’, I struggled a lot and thought jeez on a full sized fender strat. I don’t know whether switching guitars is the answer for you. I’d say stick with it, but I’m not really qualified to suggest staying with or changing.

    Barre chords are horrible 30 min exercise on one finger, 6 fret positions x 6 string test x 3 reps. this finger is not happy.

  • Barre chords are horrible

    Yeah they are when starting out - I was self-taught and it was only after a proper lesson after a few years later that I discovered I had my ring and pinky fingers the wrong way around 😆

    This is obviously not a way to avoid proper barring, but have you tried the thumb over the low E approach?

  • Classical guitarists hate this one simple trick!

  • My teacher has frowned on the thumb over low E string and wants me to perfect the index finger position.

    The funk chords all stem from that barre. I will keep practising every day if necessary, low E, A, D and high E strings are down, G and B strings need work. The exercise is tough but thorough. Despite the discomfort and soreness afters, it is a labour of love.

    @JB your strat looks ace, great guitar for learning mine is late 80’s and still sounds really clean.

  • Yeah they are when starting out - I was self-taught and it was only after a proper lesson after a few years later that I discovered I had my ring and pinky fingers the wrong way around

    I THINK this is how Josh Homme plays too, and it's a part of how he managed to come up with that weird bouncy riff in No One Knows.

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