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Landing those E-shape barre chords (try 2)
I’m having a specific problem, that I can’t seem to find much help with.
I just can’t seem to change to the E-Shape barre chords from an open chord fast enough, and I can’t find a practice that seems to be driven towards this. I make the shape, but slowly and placing each finger on one at a time, and once I’ve placed it I can move it up and down the neck OK and get a clean tone.
Anyone got any tips for practices to nail the shape quickly changing to an F Major or B Minor barre from, say, a standard D Major, which I need to do for a couple of the songs I’m trying to learn? Is just keeping at it placing my fingers one at a time OK? My speed just doesn’t seem to be improving and I’m getting frustrated. I saw one person give advice to just keep playing the song in time and not worry too much about form when playing the songs and it’ll come but that sounds like reinforcing poor form to me?
I don’t want cheats to avoid having to play the full shape, like using a thumb, playing it two-fingered and not playing certain strings please. I really want to get better at landing the full shape in a timely manor in the middle of a song.
I saw one tutorial that says “Just make the shape before you touch the strings and then press the whole shape down” which I’m sure makes sense if you already have the muscle memory for the shape, but it doesn’t work for me. What’s the best way to get there?
Any and all advice gratefully received.
(Trying to post again as didn’t seem to work last time)
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