Like many, I'm having a hard time looking to play an F chord well. Perhaps strangely, I'm finding that I can do so more easily when playing it as a full barre chord rather than as the four string version that Lisa shows in GF1 lessons. I guess that's because I've been practicing barre chords on my own otherwise, whereas the four string verision of F (on the DGBE strings) requires that index finder twist on the B and E strings that hurts my hand a lot to do.

Right now I'm nearly at the end of GF1, and working on Lisa's song "WIth You I Am Whole," which inolves a lot of F. Anyway, my question: should I focus on refining my barre F and make that "my F", or am I cheating myself in some way? Is there value in hunkering down and working to get that four-string F right, and doing so now? Or is the four-string F simply a cheat if you can't figure out the barre F, and therefore not worth spending time on if I'm making progress on the barre?