Thank you for the great collection of tips! Cool wolf art on the wall too!

I've found keeping the index finger straight on some barre chords really helps.

I spent about 4-6 months working on barre chords before I got it. Practiced Mr Jones by the Counting Crows daily for months until I got it, The only thing that worked for me was repetition. I watched many of the same videos you did, I knew the techniques, but my barre chords just sucked. What I found worked was just practicing the chord progressions (Am, F, Dm, G) and (C, F, G) over and over using a metronome, with the metronome set on 60, and doing a chord every 4 clicks. Took that much time just to get the F barre chord under the fingers. Then keep upping the metronome until I got to 120 bpm, one chord every 4 clicks. Then back the metronome down to 60, ad change chords every 2 clicks, all the way to 120. Then back down to 60 and change every click, and keep upping the tempo. As high as you can manage, so that you can get One chord change per click without errors. One tip I can offer is to not get too hung up on muted strings as long as you are using proper technique. I.e. your fingers land on the right frets. Over time, you realize proper technique is not using a lot of force, but there’s no way to get there without struggling through it. Just keep practicing, focus on proper technique with a metronome, and it will come in time.

haven't got to the barre chords section on yousician yet, but it's coming. great tips. thanks!

Great tips and very handy because I'm also learning these bar chords right now.

thank you so much for this video midlife!

You did mash all of the barre chord videos into 1, and I could see where each tip came from. The one I really need to work on is the fulcrum & pulling back on the barre instead of always trying to squeeze. I have found that switching from E-shaped to A-shaped in Justin' intermediate 1 minute changes, tires my hand & wrist out really fast. Same with playing Twist & Shout. Good stuff! Tomorrow will be 11 months for me, can't believe I've stuck with it, but I think I'm addicted, that's why. The first 3 months will test your patience, then the next 8 months will...Well test your patience. At 11 months, I now know when you start learning something new & you are dreading it because it is difficult & you suck, just give it 2 weeks.

Let me know if you have any other tips, it is always great to hear what helps others. Oh and if you want to buy the 'best slippers in the world', you can get them here classicsheepskins.com/collections/sheepskin-slippers/products/snuggle-feet 😄👍

How you got a dislike no one will know. Maybe an Aussie. Lol. Been following you for the past month. First month of Justin's course aswell. Fingers sore,muddy sound. But love it. Thanks for the channel.

Radiohead - Creep :) ? Dude, you are awesome and a huge motivation! I am also a midlife dad/it manager/husband and try to learn guitar for a couple of months.. I can just say - Thank you and keep up the good work :)

Ty for posting, I always learn something valuable from each of your videos. Do you have any helpful hints for changing to barre chords? Whether it’s changing from an open chord or another barre chord I never seem to make the change in time. TY!

I’m a lazy bastard, I mostly play power chords. Cool video, and that’s a nice Fender Stratocaster.

Great tip to start play your first barre chord at g position rather than f or as far away from nut as you can. The tension on the strings at the nut is almost impossible for beginners to overcome and will put them off guitar for life.

I’m at 6 months. I had one of those wow moments this week with Blackbird and Love Me Tender (all learned from Justin and my Beatles acoustic book). I used to suck so bad at both and how can play them pretty well. Sometimes you have to take a break, work on technique and other things, and then come back to it. What once was hard won’t be anymore

Looking forward to when you do A shape bar chords. I still am horrible at those

as a beginner guitarrplayer you will get to the point where the barre chords will come in to play . The more advanced player will probably use more triad chords , it's a way to not have tp play barre chords all the time wich can strain you're hand and wrist . Players like jimi hendrix , john frusciante and john mayer use them all the time , they also use there pinky to do some embellishments while playing these triads chords wich just makes it all just more nice sounding .

The fulcrum thing never works for me but what really helped me was making sure I had my fingers basically on the line of the fret

Is the song Freak ?

Wondered if it was Under The Bridge but I'll guess 'Creep'. I'm not even a Radiohead fan so you must be pretty close to sthg recognisable.

Radiohead wasn't it? Creep?

Creep radio head

I didn't learn anything already know that stuff could have shown the difference cords