Thanks for the advice. I still have many things to work on, but my biggest problem is my finger placement when playing on all six strings (aka barre chords). Whenever I hit the D string, it goes dead because my pinkie on the A string is in the way. When I lift my pinkie to let the D string get a good ring, the little E string goes dead because my pinkie finger get in the way from reaching for the A string. Can anyone help? I used both the barre chord method of both placing my finger across one fret and then the one which I use my thumb to grab the E string, neither doesn't seem to work well in fixing the problem because one or more strings seem to go dead. Help?