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Brown eyd girl
American pie
Yellow submarine

All good for sing along

Yeah that sounds great. I'll still move it down for you if you want, just need to know what key you're in right now.

I'll move it for you if you want.  I can send it to you in 3-4 keys to try out.

How about Sister Goldenhair?

Here's my crack at it. Didn't have time to do the whole thing as I'm on lunch and also to pack for a flight in two hours

https://soundcloud.com/joe-lilly/ode-to … -the-month

Nice!

Thanks!

I've found that lots of problems with barre chords can be attributed to technique and instrument, not hand strength. You shouldn't need to have a vice grip to sound notes. With that, a few things:

1. Make sure your guitar is set up correctly and action is low enough that you don't have to do a ton of work.
2. Make sure your guitar neck is in a high enough position to allow your hand to hang from your elbow. Prop your left knee up or use a strap, even when sitting. This is good position: https://deftdigits.com/blog/wp-content/ … osture.jpg  This is bad position: http://www.fretjam.com/images/acoustic- … itting.jpg Also make sure your guitar isn't angled upward toward you. This makes it easier to see the fretboard but much harder to play, i.e. http://takelessons.com/blog/wp-content/ … 06/117.png
3. When you fret a barre chord (or any note for that matter) the pressure doesn't go directly in to the fret board. Your elbow pulls your hand both back and down slightly. So you are using gravity, not hand strength, to fret notes.

Hope this helps!

Thanks everyone. I pushed the riff and a couple of the D chords but it's getting really close. This is a beast for me to play whilst singing.

Gotcha!  Sus chords kinda sound lame when played in barre position, in my opinion. I prefer to play them in open position or by moving the F shape up the neck with muted a and e strings.

Every once in a while I'll play a rootless a or d chord up the neck (which is kind of like a barre but without barreing anything, and without the low strings coming in to play) and hammer on the sus 4 but that really only works when there's a band behind you.