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Hiya, I too have faced this dilemma. I can now do the full F-barred but not at speed/smoothly. For me the breakthrough came after I extended my first finger a good half inch above the fret, but I’m still way too slow at the moment to use it in beginner type songs. So for now I use the Fmaj7 because it is close enough…….but you can get it sounding more like a (hollowed-out) full F if you leave out the high E – ie finger the B string at fret 1, G at 2 and D at 3 (ie Fmaj7), and mute the high E with your first finger – you play all 4 strings.