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mini barre cords
I am looking for some tip/hints to work on mini bar cord, thanks
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Perhaps place your thumb behind the barre on the back of the neck? More practice as you build up strength and don’t be afraid of them. Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly at first.
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Thanks
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For any type of barre ( mini or full ), place your fingers on the strings and pick each string individually, then adjust your pressure and curve of your fingers until they all ring out. As Albert said, you may have to adjust your thumb. If you struggle with applying enough pressure with the barre, you can also take your strumming arm ( around the elbow / forearm ) and squeeze the guitar body into your chest. This acts like a lever and pushes the fretboard outwards into your fingers. Once you have the notes ringing out, try to release the pressure and then reapply it to get the notes ringing out again. After that, take your fingers completely off the fretboard by about 1/4″ and re-fret the barre chord. Try to have all your fingers land at once rather that reforming the chord one finger at a time. That is, form the chord in the air and then land on the strings. I find I still use a “lead finger” to be the basis of my chord shape in the air ( my ring finger ). Others use the middle or even the index, but that technique really helped me, although I doubt everyone uses it. Good luck !
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I worked hard to get the F-mini barre down. It seemed it was always coming up in the chord progressions and was keeping me from playing songs. Getting it down seemed like a rite of passage.
In retrospect I don’t feel that learning them is all that important. Now that I can do it easily I wish I has just played the Fmaj7 instead (ignoring the high E string entirely). There are other options besides mini barres that might be used in place of them. If I were teaching my child I would have them play the other easier substitute chords while they gradually learn the full barres in all the CAGED shapes.
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