Originally Posted by: CSchlegelHey & welcome to GT!

As Mike_x1x mentioned my tutorials on barre chords in GF2 are the place to start:

http://www.guitartricks.com/tutorial.php?input=450

Let us know how it goes. Best of success!

Just thought I would throw this out there for barre chord discussuion. I have been playing for only 7 weeks. When I started I got a used Epi Les Paul Standard and have been practicing barre chords and improving slowly. This weekend I got as a xmas gift a new mail order SX Furrian Tele copy which you would think would be inferior to the Epi Les Paul, right? I was amazed however that Barre chording was MUCH easier and cleaner sounding. So now I want to know what is the reason. Is it the string differences, the action height, the jumbo frets on the SX? Anyone have any thoughts?

In general does anyone know if thicker gauge strings would be harder or easier to Barre than thinner strings? It appears that the SX stings might be thinner than the Epi Les Paul's.