Can your fingers be to small to do a f barre chord or should anyone be able to do it eventually?

just practice and you'll eventually get it. Try strengthening the left hand with a stress ball if you feel you don't have enough finger strenght.

make sure you aren't forcing your muscles. fretting the guitar is a lot about pressing down with just the right amount of force. It will make you more efficient when you have to play faster and you'll avoid injuring or straining your muscles and tendons

its kind of crazy how fast i learned everything at the start, like picking and strumming and rhythm etc was pretty fast learning curve (started july 2019) but barre chords were like hitting a wall FAST, could not glide my way through this, you are right, if i get the barre chord down would i be considered an intermediate? i feel like the only thing after that is soloing?

Wtf is wrong with normies
>make a C shape
>X-3-2-0-1-X
>now lets transition to an F chord
>X-3-3-2-1-X
Wow that was hard. You can even use your thumb to play the root note
>1(T)-3-3-2-1-X
I literally know no guitarist that makes the full F barre unless the entire song is barre chords.

true becuase if i push really hard, i can get them all, but my wrist starts to hurt and that doesnt feel fluid, thank you

if a person solos on only one string is that still considered a good solo?

also make sure you have correct posture. For example playing with a guitar strao that is too long forces your wrist and back into an unatural postition, which can also lead to strain and injury.

I mean, if its sounds good thats the important thing but when you want to learn mor complex solos using only one string wont cut it

>if a person solos on only one string is that still considered a good solo?
The strokes do it lol. But idk why you would? why slide all the way down the next when you can just move to the G string from the B string?

what strokes song

Your hand will get stronger and it will get easier, also it's about 10x easier on a good guitar than a bad guitar, and about 50x easier on electric than acoustic.

i can do it consistently now lol but my wtist is getting mucked up i can tell, i started to curl my index so i only get the three strings i need, is that a good idea or should i muster the strength to keep trying to flatten all the strings with a straight index

lol im on a shitty acousting that has string problems, im pretty saure the b string is softer than the other strings and harder to flatten or even stay tuned

Not really sure what intermediate entails, most of music is just blagging it when you get past the basics. I'd expect any half decent guitarist to know all the main chords including barres and be able to easily improv over typical chords changes I guess. Although I know a few rythymn guitarist who don't know the first thing about soloing. Knowing foundational theory is probably a big help there.

>youtube.com/watch?v=ymuKwYDWb9Q
99% of it is 1 string at a time. Also a good song to learn to play and sing lead at the same time because the vocals follow the lead

what does blagging
thanks mean

That is true, if you have some chunky necked boomer instrument it will probably be harder. Also lighter string guages might help if it's still such a problem.

Do your hands get tingling, 'falling asleep' sensations? It might be CTS.

yeah, usually when I do bar chords I'm not actually fretting down all the notes with the index finger. You just need to barre the ones that you need for major, minor or seventh chords respectively. Just practice doing major chords until you gain strenght. Its just a matter of sytrengthening your hand.

As for the wrist pain, make sure you have good posture.

youtube.com/watch?v=cqEhj5C0gf8

Blagging just means gassing a whiff.

obvi a more complex solo and be moved around but there good solos on only one string? or is that scoffed at by guitarists

still dont know what that means aha

no just like im pushing with my thumb really hard from the back to help fret then my wrist starts to hurt a bit is that normal and building strength or should i stop

youtube.com/watch?v=aj6pWHxu6NE

check out videos on youtube on posture

ive seen this guy, and ive seen other videos, they all contradict each other at some point lol its like who the fuck am i supposed to listen to but it seems self evident that everyone just does what works for them, i do know for a fact my guitar is shit

It just wouldn't make sense usually. Once you can play guitar reasonably well it is easier to use multiple strings so you're not flailing your arm up and down the neck. It would only be easier that way if you were working within a few frets, like a solo with very limited notes. There are some riffs that use the neck like that intentionally for how it sounds though, like Misirlou by Dick Dale.

who cares man. no-wave happened, and ever since then musicians can't look at instruments the same way again.

if the string action on your guitar is too high it also makes fretting the notes a lot harder.
You can correct string action by lowering the bridge (if it's an acoustic you have to sand it down a bit) and by adjusting the truss rod.

send me a picture of the fretboard at the 12th fret (seen from above) so I can see the distance between the strings and the fret. That way I can tell you if your action needs adjusting or not.

It's normal, but it shouldn't last more than a few months until your hand gets strong. A lot of good advice already in this thread but adjust the position and angle of the neck until it is most comfortable. Don't hang your guitar low like a lot of music videos show. Don't play hunched over. Try to use proper technique with your thumb in the middle of the back of the neck and don't press super hard. My fingers are really fatty so it took me a while to get the barre chords down but it was only time and practice. I've got carpal tunnel syndrome from unrelated/work activities, so my wrists hurt and hands go numb after a while playing. It doesn't sound like you've got the same problem.

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fucking this. It could be your nut is not finished properly.