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Kevin Taylor
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Kevin Taylor
Guitar Tricks Instructor
Joined: 03/05/00
Posts: 4,722
07/05/2001 12:08 am
Part of the problem might be trying to play all 6 strings all the time. Especially on power chords using distortion... you can usually get away with playing just the bottom 3 or 4 root strings. Very rarely do I play the top E string unless it's a clean sound... then it's just a matter of practice (lots of it) till it gets easy. Another part of the problem might have to do with your setup, string height etc... other than that, a month isn't that much time... it took me about a year before I could play barre chords without screwing up.