Originally Posted by: kenwashington1906[p]......my F Chord stinks
I guess I just push forward with a bad sounding F Chord and hope it will get better.
Pretty much.
I think I can confidently say that [u]anyone[/u] who doesn't have problems with playing open and first fret barre F starting out is truly [u]the[/u] exception.
Just do the best you can and keep progressing with the lesson/syllabus, but at the same time, keep working on both forming and getting the tone out of that F chord. Don't avoid it, but [u]put more work into it than the easier others[/u], balanced of course with something more enjoyable when it becomes frustrating as it will.
Especially in the beginning, we all tend to want to play the chords which come easy because we want to be making music a ASAP which reinforces a perception of getting somewhere/progress.