Hello Gert!

Just my 2 cents:[br][br]This is my first formal course (before, I learnt through friends and youtube), so do not take my word over teachers' but:

I was taught to play F and B chords directly using barres (and even powerchords by the way). And I find it horribly complicated to play the F chord without a barre. To the point where I may skip playing the non barre way (I may be handicapping myself in some circunstance in the future by doing this).

So don't despair for the barre chords.