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Posted by Alex Grant on April 4, 2015 at 7:40pm

Trying to get 12 bar blues progression right and when I bar across say the 5th Fret I cant get the strings to ring out properly any dark secrets to this

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  • Alex Grant April 9, 2015 at 5:00am
    Fretted thanks for your interest I've been checking out your YouTube clips
  • ChickenboneJohn April 7, 2015 at 8:21am

    You are playing a fretted guitar, not a fretless, right?

  • Alex Grant April 7, 2015 at 6:39am

    Thanks for that . So it needs to be 1/8 all the way down the neck?

  • ChickenboneJohn April 5, 2015 at 6:20am

    Barre behind the fret, not over it, make sure you don't let your finger hang over the fret otherwise that will damp the note, press down hard enough to make sure the strings are "stopped" firmly onto the fret. No secret - a barre chord is pretty much the simplest chord to hold down, it just needs a bit of strength in the hand, and accuracy every time.  If action of the guitar (ie the height of the strings over the frets) is much more than 2.5mm (1/8") it will be hard to fret, so get that attended to pronto if the action is too high.

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