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Woohoo! Congratulations! That’s always such a good feeling to finally play a clean barre!
Looking at the photo, your hand doesn’t look like it’s twisted like a pretzel. My index is like a backwards letter C when I barre. Whatever works for you.
Keep up the great work!
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Great performance Kevin, Does the pattern you use (hybrid between fingerpick, strum, and percussive slap) just come naturally, or is iit basically a conscious choice and effort based on each song?
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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.
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Congratulations on your 4th TACiversary Omar. Sounds like you’ve been very busy, and a congrats to you and your son on the new home. I haven’t progressed to the point of performing in public. People amaze me in their abilities to so so in, what I feel, is a short amount of time. Did you have prior playing experience?
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Happy 1st TACiversary!
You are much more organized than I could ever be. I tried jotting things down in a journal, but it ne et stuck.
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Congratulations! That is quite a feat and a great testamentto TAC. I have a a little ways to go to claim that.
I loved your story which I could clearly visualize, and that you are a musician and artist that has bragging rights
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Pretty dang serious per the surgeon and therapist but I’m doing great. I’ll let everyone know next week what the surgeon says about when the second surgery
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Thanks, and hoping soon too
Surgeon & Occupational Therapists know how important it is to get me back to playing. Never missed a day in 4 years. This is killing me. Find out next week when they’ll schedule 2nd surgery. Can’t wait to get it over with
The issue will be scheduling around several upcoming concerts in November and December. Think I would have learned my lesson, but that’s a true addiction – haha @Philb
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Definitely on my way or there already LOL. Thanks Phil.
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Phil, I really appreciate that! I’m just itching to get back to playing. Have some numbness in fingers that I hope is temporary.
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You’re sweet and kind — I needed a little lift today. The plate holding the wrist straight causes my had to be perpetually swollen, bruised and painful. I can’t pull my fingers down or in a fist, because it pulls on tender area. Lots is heat and cold wraps today. I think the fold might make it worse.
Bright side, had a fabulous dinner with my 86 year old neighbor, who I love dearly.
Thanks for the pick me up.
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Thanks for the encouragement! It’s good to hear from you too. It’s been a while. Hope you are well.