Hi Harry!
Follow the tips of Jp3300 (play barre on your standard songs, even if you dont need to).
Randy tiped you about the way to find the barre chords on the 6:th string. I have made a word document with a chord table and some explanations to what Randy said. Check this thread:
<a href="http://www.chordie.com/forum/index.php?t=tree&goto=7446&S=6f09986dc0646fe6aa50e9416cab39e2#msg_7446" target="_blank"> http://www.chordie.com/forum/index.php? … =7446& amp;S=6f09986dc0646fe6aa50e9416cab39e2#msg_7446</a>
I also recomend you NOT to cheat and take the easy way out on the barre chords (simple F's and stuff). I did and had to work hard to get rid of the cheats (that stuck to my brain) now when I'm closer to playing barres decent.
I've been playing since christmas (about 0,5 - 1 hour/day) and I see the light in the end of the barre tunnel <img src="images/smiley_icons/icon_biggrin.gif" border=0 alt="Very Happy"> it will work...
One thing I have done to get some self confidence is to train, train, train on my metal string acoustic to get the strength, and then play on my electric with accoustic settings on the amp. On the electric i'm very close to getting the barre right (in tempo). I also changed to more expensive strings on my accoustic, and they made it considerably easier to fret the barre chords.
/Missen
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