Need help with barre chords

[Eren Koc]

I can’t play barre chords guys, i need your advice. Is there any exercises to practice?

 

[Matt Wildman]

Stretching your fingers some before you attempt one would help. I really don’t know of many exercises (other than stretching your fingers before) that would help. It’s really all about trying it out and practicing. It took me a while to get them down. And judging by your profile pic, it looks like you have somewhat long fingers. So just keep practicing them and you’ll get the hang of them here soon! Hope this helps

 

[Aashay Deshpande]

hey eren!there arent such exercises for playing barre chords as far as i know. try holding a barre chord and pluck every string. keep doing this until every note is cleanly heard. also try to bring the power to hold a barre chord by your thumb. press your thumb on the neck while your other four fingers hold the barre chord shape. good luck out there!

 

[Ed Seith]

It’s one of those things you just need to keep working at directly until you get it, but once you do, it will never leave.
One thing that can help is to be consciously aware to “roll” the barred index finger a bit. Instead of using the fleshy flat of the bottom of the finger, roll the hand a finger towards the headstock a little, so you’re using more of the SIDE of the index finger, the side closest to the thumb. The finger’s a little bonier there, and you get a little more leverage.

 

[MasonTheWZRD]

What I did to learn how to Barre chords is start at smaller frets such as barring the fifth fret or 8th fret and picking each string to make sure they rung out. Once I had that down I moved them around and did the same thing again until it improved.

 

[Jen Hapke]

You can start with only the index finger over the fretbord. Then pick every string and check if they are all ringing clean. If thats the case then add the over fingers and check again the tone of every string.
I sometimes had the problem that I thought the unclean sound came from the strings my index finger is pulling down but the problem was caused by the other fingers.

 

[Jak Angelescu]

How long have you been practicing them? It honestly took me several years before my barre chords started to be really decent. So if you just started like this week, give it time everyone on here is giving really good advice to make sure you practice them right. Just be patient

 

[Benjamin Bencik]

If you play chords or anything right what if you only press down with your finger mainly on the notes that gotta sound just so you don’t fully press the barre finger down because that hurts if you know what I mean. Only press on the strings that gotta ring put pressure off the strings that don’t need the barre.

 

[idssdi]

At the start bar chords are horrible. Just continue practicing them and at some point you will be able to do them!

 

[Josh Wright]

Drop the wrist, it’ll hurt until you build up muscles.