I’ve found it’s all about the pressure and maximising it, so using your arm strength to pull back against the fret board instead of finger strength. The “AHA” moment was seeing a YouTube guitarist playing a Minor chord and using their middle AND index finger to barre it, reinforcing the index with the middle.
It’s less finger strength and more my fingers are weird. I got meat paws and it still doesn’t work trying multiple techniques.
Think it comes down to my knuckle on my pointer finger being a good bit larger than the rest of my finger so there’s gaps when I attempt to lay it flat across the fretboard.
At this point though I just kind of play what feels good and don’t really worry about learning songs anymore. So I typically don’t use them in the style I’ve been playing. Like a weird mix of numetal/progmetal.
Am I good? Not really, but it’s still fun to find a nice groovy riff and jam to it.
I’ve found it’s all about the pressure and maximising it, so using your arm strength to pull back against the fret board instead of finger strength. The “AHA” moment was seeing a YouTube guitarist playing a Minor chord and using their middle AND index finger to barre it, reinforcing the index with the middle.
It’s less finger strength and more my fingers are weird. I got meat paws and it still doesn’t work trying multiple techniques.
Think it comes down to my knuckle on my pointer finger being a good bit larger than the rest of my finger so there’s gaps when I attempt to lay it flat across the fretboard.
At this point though I just kind of play what feels good and don’t really worry about learning songs anymore. So I typically don’t use them in the style I’ve been playing. Like a weird mix of numetal/progmetal.
Am I good? Not really, but it’s still fun to find a nice groovy riff and jam to it.