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You are not alone in struggling with barre chords. There are professional musicians that don’t play them and avoid them to the nth degree. They’re even those bands such as the Rolling Stones that don’t play those or regular chords most of the time they play basically with power chords . I personally like them and find songs that have a lot of them such as seven Spanish Angels in the key of F to practice with because is almost all bar chords, but that’s just my sick thing..
My suggestion is just keep trying keep practicing keep moving your fingers, wrist guitar until you find the sweet spot. If you do pull the neck up higher, it helps getting the angle you need with your Fred hand in order to eventually play a clean barre chord. The first time it happens you’ll be so excited and then you’ll realize that you can’t duplicate it right away it again you’re back to playing around with it pulling your wrist out making sure your fingers for the non-barre finger/s are curved and not muting other strings. Always play each string in the chord individually, and then if they all play clearly, strum. When you can take your hand off the neck, reposition and play a clear chord 10 times in a row without error, you’re in the good. I have to turn my barre finger at an angle towards the headstock to get more of the bone instead of the fatty part of the finger on the strings, and I also curve my finger instead of straight up and down, and I still keep it within the fret, but by curving it, my pointer finger Is able to fret the root note and the high E.
For the A shaped barre, I use my 2nd, 3red and 4th fingers to fret each srring, because I can’t barre the index and the ring fingers together. I still haven’t mastered the 7th barres, but I haven’t run across them in songs yet.