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I don't use barre chords much though, to be fair.
its when I only want to play the top few strings, like this:
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That I have problems. And its worse higher up the neck.
I've watched several videos of guitarists playing the same bit from the same song (its the pre-chorus to Holiday in Cambodia) and I can't finger it the way any of them do without it really hurting. If I even attempt the thumb over the top trick I can't make the notes ring out cleanly at all.
I think it's a combination of my short stubby fingers (my wife is about four inches shorter than me and has longer fingers) and crappy technique.
Think I need to find myself a teacher to correct some bad habits...
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
I teach students to have their thumb behind their middle finger when playing chords (think 'G clamp').
When playing solos and bending string sis it better to have thumb over so the neck is used as a lever to bend from.
The reality is there is no perfect position because you use your hands to do different things on the neck.
For barre chords I advocate the G clamp approach though.
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whereas it is much easier to just barre the top E and B, and use the tip of the finger to get the 1st fret on the Low E.
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
unless Ive misunderstood what you've written
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
Yes. But beware!
I played barre chords like that for many years and it left me with a serious technical defect. I couldn't ever get 7th chords to ring out properly. For example, on a G7: 3 5 3 4 3 3 the 7th (4th string 3rd fret) went flub instead of sounding properly. I used to just play stuff and not worry about it (after all there are other ways to play a G7) but eventually it started bugging me, especially as I could see that it was holding me back from doing other things too.
For once in my life, instead of going at it like a bull at a gate (my usual method) I had the sense to go and a see an actual guitar teacher before I started practicing practicing practicing some dumb blind alley.
Nope - as it turned out - I wasn't doing anything actually wrong, I just had to work on the twin issues of not fretting the barre properly (I'd always played a "lazy barre" as per your suggestion, especially during my 12-string years) and (much more difficult to fix) unintentionally muting the 4th string with my ring finger on the 5th string. (I have moderately large hands and what works for me on the 50mm nut 12-string necks I played for decades doesn't work for me on a standard 44mm 6-string nut. I find narrow necks very difficult.)
Anyway, 12 months later, problem solved. But I had to work very hard to sort it.
Do I still barre only the notes I need? Too right! Never work any harder than you have to is my motto.