Originally Posted by: faith83Just chiming in to say I'm always fascinated with which chords different people find difficult. The A chord is my go-to easy-peasy chord, but I cannot even with Dm...which I've not heard anyone else bitch about, LOL.
Deep back into the last century, my nemesis was open D7. 
As for open A... I rarely see the chord formed the way I was taught. Fingers on the second fret; middle on D string, ring on G string, pinky on B string.
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