Originally Posted by: linda pI'am so glad to hear someone else is having this trouble. My fingers are short an I'm woking on barre chords wah wah. It's so frustrating to me. One thing I have learned is when fretting you really have to bring your fretting hand almost in a C pattern. This keeps you from palming your hand on other frets. You really have to work at the position that works for you. It took me 6 months to figure that out. As far as fretting the top, I put dots on my fingertips. When I'm playing if the dots are looking at me my position is wrong. I do sometimes make them off a bit of the center ,as long as I can't see the dots I'm good. Now if anyone has any advice on these blasted barre chords I would appreciate hearing from you. Hope that helped you two out some....lindap

For barre chords, are you doing the full barre position? I might advise reducing that to just a couple of notes instead of the entire shape.

Start with the first two, then add the third, then the rest, etc.