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@barbandjim24gmail-com don’t beat yourself up too badly. The F-mini is hard, for some even more difficult than the fully barred F chord. I have a good handle on it now after 18 months in the TAC program. Let me tell you that for the first 12 months I couldn’t play it hardly at all, either the B or high E string or both were muffled and sometimes the G string as well. Everybody’s hand is a little different so it’s hard to tell you that one thing or another is going to fix it for you. For me it was realizing that I was pressing the strings with Gorilla force and it doesn’t require that much force. As you hear the thud your brain instinctively says: “push harder!” But it’s all about getting your index finger in the right position to get clear notes (F and C on the E and B strings respectively) and pressing just hard enough. The same is true for most of the chords in this challenge. I was killing my fingers to form the Neil Young chord and the D. This made it hard to do all the modifications. Once I let off some pressure those things started to come easier
This is a benchmark, so it has even more layers than the regular challenge weeks. This is the final day where Tony is asking you to lay everything on top each other. There’s a lot going on!
This was my 5th time thru and while it went much better than the first few times, it still is very challenging for me. It’s okay to not be able to go all the way through it without some issues, in the struggles is where you learn the most. One of my favorite song writers, Jon Foreman, wrote a song titled: “(The Wound is) Where the Light Shines Through”. Link below: