[Bill_Brown]

Hi Susan ( @susanchinchillo@gmail.com ), Welcome to TAC. Hope you have a great guitar journey here🤩

Try taking those barre chord shapes (index) up to the 5th or 7th frets🤔. There’s a lot less string tension along that area of the neck😱 and that should make it easier to practice the chord shapes, and perhaps get some quicker gratification😃

Some other pointers, 1) make sure your thumb is lined up with the index finger and you’re squeezing (gently) from both sides of the neck. 2) make sure you’re using all of your index finger – what I mean by that is that you should lay your entire index finger across the fret such that the edge of your palm is against the edge of the neck – hope that makes sense

• This reply was modified 4 years, 9 months ago by  Bill_Brown.