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@allendr1970gmail-com Welcome to TAC. I noticed on your profile that you’ve been a TAC member for a short time. I remember when I first started I actually posted something about having difficulty with the C also. I think it’s fairly common, with different people having issues with different strings and fingerings.
What exactly are you having a difficult time with? Are you muting strings? If so, which strings are muted? Give a little bit more description as to what you’re experiencing, and it would really help to have a photo of your hand position . Provide a little bit more information, even possibly a photo of how you’re fretting the chord. If I remember correctly, my issue was that I was muting a string. I believe it was the D string. What I basically had to do was learn to put my ring finger up a little bit further infringing on the low E string, because I could mute that string, since it’s not part of the C chord, so it didn’t matter if my ring finger pushed up to the side of it, and it took my finger away from the D strings where the pad of my ring finger had been pressing into the D. the pad.
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But first you need to know exactly what is happening that is why it’s so important to play each string individually when you first learn to fret chords. So just shoot me back a message with a little bit more detail as to what the issue is with your ring finger, and possibly a photo of your hand fretting C chord.
And lastly, try to remember to be kind to yourself. If you’re fairly new to guitar, it can be time-consuming and frustrating to properly fret a chord, for it to become second nature, it will happen though. Don’t worry about speed too much right now just focus on trying to learn the techniques as best you can and the fact that you asked a question as fantastic cause I’m I can guarantee there’s lots of people out there struggling with the same exact issue. You have to learn what works and eventually with practice you’ll find that it becomes muscle memory as to where your fingers are placed.