Originally Posted by: john of MTI've picked up the guitar again after a 35-year 'break.' I don't have much trouble forming the F chord...just trouble getting the stings to sound clearly. :) But I recently found that making the chord 'fuller' by using my pinky to make the C on the 5th string 3rd fret somehow helps me bar the first fret of the first two strings.
Don't know why...just know that it works for me.
Well...I blew that! Let me try again...my pinky on the 3rd fret, 4th string, ring finger on the 3rd fret, 5th string. IE, a F barre cord but the index finger bars only the first two strings.
Sorry 'bout that. :(
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