Easy barre chord songs

Often when you read a tab for a rock song that's played with a barre you'll only see two or three notes. The idea is you are only strumming a few strings or that your strumming hand palm is muting the rest. Because the hand has two fleshy sides to it you can manage to move the pick, keep the central strings open and mute the upper and lower strings. It's very rock but tricky.

Try bar chords as substitutes for open chords. Sometimes they sound wrong, sometimes they open the whole sound up. I was trying 'Please Mister Postman' last night which is A F# D E all the way through. You could try it all as barres but somehow the D and E sound more insistent ('deliver the letter the sooner the better'). You'd also think an open A was easier to start on but I found barre A allowed you to slide down to F# quickly, getting the staccato start to the song.

Jumpin Jack Flash is a good barre riff. Also there's a version of 'She's Not There' that works real well with jazzy neck pickup tones. The Damned's 'New Rose' has a furious 4 barre part that appears throughout, fast but satisfying...

I hate barre chords. I have bony fingers.

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"Nobody paints by ear so why would I play guitar by sight?"

Oh yeah also i would prefer songs played with power chords

"Hitching' a Ride" by Green Day is played almost completely using an E-Based Barre.
Also "Macy's Day Parade" by Green Day uses just about all of the standard Barre chords.

That's why I can't play either of those songs. I hate Barre chords, I can just about manage an E-based now but I can't play an A-based barre.

Actually, forget I said that, it's not simple at all

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