Originally Posted by: maggiorTo build a lot of strength with barre chords, play them a lot; find a song like haghj500 suggests and play it regularly. Once your endurance is up, make sure you play something with barre chords once a day I'd say to keep that strength there.

Well, I just looked up Toto's "Hold The Line", and it turns out that it's Chorus is just 4 Power Chords, and while it's not quite Barre Chords, it's close enough. The biggest problems I have with Barre Chords are, after all, the position of the Thumb on the back of the neck. When I play Barre and Power Chords, the Thumb tends to cramp up (which is not the intended purpose of placing it there), so if I can rid myself of this issue, it's one less worry for when I find something with full Barre Chords :)

Also, on an unrelated note, related to the original post: The Bass player just responded today. He said he's been having some problems with his Internet connection, but he's still interested in meeting up again. I'm hoping we can figure something out for next weekend, so we can figure out a few songs to learn, preferably some that are within our grasp, and if possible, some that aren't done to death already :) and hopefully some songs that we both like. I was pretty large about the first one. Not the most fun to play, but it's a good song nonetheless. The next song we choose, however, has to be a little more fun to play too... :)