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insomniacgrafx
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insomniacgrafx
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03/07/2009 4:24 pm
I'm a woman and can do barre chords pretty smoothly, but it varies based on the guitar I'm playing. I recently bought a Fender Deluxe Player's Strat that I love- very easy to barre things. But on my Ovation acoustic/electric, it's always a struggle.

I should probably get both guitars professionally set up to make the action as low as possible without buzzing. That would make it easier. The Strat plays well as-is, but I'd like to go as low as possible w/ the action on both guitars.

And Kevins' reminder that you don't necessarily need all six strings is a good one- in fact, in my opinion, 6 strings strummed all at once on an electric guitar sounds very muddy.