A shape Barre Chord, finger not bending

Hello,

I'm struggling now for a few weeks with the A shape barre chord on the 5th string. Somehow my ringfinger doesn't want to bend backwards in the required way for a 'double bar'. I really try to pressure in downward around the knucle, but it seams unbending.The alternative, using three fingers instead, doesnt really appeal to me. I found that one difficult to change with and further up the neck too cramped within one spot.

Any tips/ exercises for getting this ringfinger to bend more easily? So far I tried pressuring it to bend backwards with my other hand, but that mostly only hurts.. I can't even seem to hold down two strings with the ringfinger at this point, let alone three...

Thanks in advance

Hello Mr. Yo.

It's Nice to know that multiple people experience similar issue. Have the same issue here. My finger bends somewhat... but not enough to leave the high E unmuted. Anyway I practice, and putting special attentin to it. And I see it begins to work little by little.

Hope it provides some support :).

Good luck with it. If you find a good technique please share here.

Vlad

I have a bit of bend but not enough to allow the high E to ring out clearly. I've kind of always assumed for Rock music it doesn't really matter and I think it's just a doubled chord tone anyway (the 5th?) which is also played by the ring finger barre on the D string. So I think the most important thing might be to just make sure you are not allowing the ring finger barre to sound the high E string.[br][br]Maybe I'm just sloppy! So by all means, wouldn't want you to stop trying, but I wouldn't let it hold you back from using the shape.

[Edit: Oh just re-read your question again, and now I realize I'm not sure if you are saying your main problem is that you can't get the high E to ring clearly with the index finger barre, or if you're just saying you can't get any of the ring finger chord tones to ring out cleanly? I have seen some people use the pinky for that barre instead. Not sure if that's because they have more bend in the pinky. I don't.][br][br]Good luck[br]Martin