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ChristopherSchlegel
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ChristopherSchlegel
Guitar Tricks Instructor
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Posts: 8,368
04/24/2022 2:33 pm
Originally Posted by: guitarlover2022I have arthritis in my hands and every time I try a video or DVD blues course, I get stuck on barre chords, get frustrated and quit. If you have a solution you can offer, please let me know. I am just not going to be able to get the barre chords (at least full ones) down, so I don't know if I should just forget about playing blues.

There are plenty of ways to voice chords without having to use a full barre chord. Anders covers some of them in his Fundamentals courses & in the Blues style courses.

And electric guitars are often much easier to physically play than acoustics. Hope that helps!


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