Help with F Major Chord

I have been trying to learn the guitar for a while now, and I'm always doing absolutely great until I get to the F major chord. I can't get the high e string to ring properly. Any tips?

I know this thread has been posted a million times, I apologize. It's just an extremely difficult chord! Haha

Have you read through these?

http://www.guitartricks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=34740&highlight=f+major
http://www.guitartricks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=36187&highlight=f+major
http://www.guitartricks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33880&highlight=f+major
http://www.guitartricks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=35022&highlight=f+major
http://www.guitartricks.com/forum/showthread.php?t=33680&highlight=f+major

The general consensus is just practice, but I was wondering like finger position, etc... I have looked at a lot, I'm just trying to see all that I can get

Well everything that has been said there is going to be said here. Practice, add one finger at a time, roll your finger around till you get a good sound, can't help your specific problem without being able to see exactly what you're doing, etc.

Take it from a newbie to guitar - keep practicing. That dreaded F chord was so hard for me too, and now I can do it pretty well most of the time. I found it was easier to do with the capo on - I guess the action on my guitar is a bit high. I even dared try a full barre chord the other day and totally surprised myself - it sounded not bad at all, and I had more or less banished the idea of me ever being able to do that.

Originally Posted by: JJHavocI have been trying to learn the guitar for a while now, and I'm always doing absolutely great until I get to the F major chord. I can't get the high e string to ring properly. Any tips?

Hey I totally understand, normally you flatten your index finger to cover everything in a bar chord.
If that's difficult try slightly bending your index finger making this shape ")" so your only touching the root F with the tip of your finger, and between your first knuckle will naturally hit the C and the F of the chord, or the 1st and 2nd string.
Hope that makes a little sense, if not I can go deeper, it's all body mechanics, or finger mechanics haha! I stress this shape ) with your 1st finger.
I love Fmajor! You will get that...
Take care, best wishes:
waylar

F Major & B Major belongs in a cuss class by themselves. I’m like you one of the new guys. You just have to keep moving your fingers, lower your thumb to allow you to put more pressure on your finger. Then one time after putting down your guitar in discuss, you pick it back up and bang you hit it. “Yea.Yea,Yea” and in my case the family looking at me like I had grown a second head. I said “did you hear that”? Only to get from them “Hear what”? Hang in there brother you will get it.