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Hello Brad,
Looking at your profile it appears you are a new player like myself. I started early this year and joined TAC in July.
This is very common, starting out you will struggle with the G, C and D open chords. B7 is similar to G (just 1 fret towards the nut and small movements of the 1,2 and 3 fingers). G, B7 and C (sometimes even D!) gave me fits for months. Have you begun to develop calluses on your fingers yet? It takes close to a month for this to happen if you play about 20 min everyday. Might develop faster if you play longer, but it takes many months to get really solid calluses that are necessary for extended playing.
I assure you, keep working on it and it will get better! Keep your fingernails on the fretting hand as short as possible! What also helped me was getting my wrist lower (or further around) the neck so that the fingers are coming at the strings as perpendicular as possible.New players will tend to play with the wrong amount of pressure. Practice doing each note one at a time and feel how much pressure you need to play it clean! Finger placement should be as close the fret as possible, this will save you from having to overcome more of the tension in the strings and have push even harder.
If I think or hear about anything else on this topic, I will post it.Rock on, Brad!