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Hi Terry ( @Telboy ), let me start by saying welcome to TAC. I just want to give you my thoughts about the “CAGED” system – IMHO, the most important thing to take away from CAGED is the fact that each of those chord shapes have a “root string” and knowing which chord shape uses which string as the root, is key. Rarely (if ever) will you play a C shaped or G shaped barre chord. Most barre chords are played using either the E shape or A shape (including their respective minor and 7-chord shapes)👍 So for barre chords, your situation leaves you with with the index to barre and the middle and ring fingers to fret various notes (strings) – let’s call those fingers your “free fingers”. I may have a “work around” for barre chords that you could use. Let’s consider an E shaped barre chord for instance, you can use the mini F shape or do the full barre and fret the G and D strings with your free fingers (partial E chord) – either way you choose, you want to just strum the D, G, B and hi E strings only😱 My point is, you may only have 3 fingers to play part of a chord – just make sure that you only strum the strings contained in that part of the chord🤔
Hope this makes sense to you – good luck Terry😎