![]() Hold the chord and play one string at a time adjust each finger as you go till each string is clear and not buzzing or dull. You need just enough for each note/string to sound clearly and no more. *there are a multitude of "correct" ways and we love to argue about them ) Experiment and find the way that works for you. Thumb position is important - the "officially correct"* way is tip of the thumb in the middle of the neck, but that never worked for me and I tend to use the meatier flat of the thumb. It's probably the hardest chord you'll ever have to learn (not that other chords aren't challenging - they just won't feel like anywhere as big an obstacle by the time you get to them). ![]() The full barre F is the bane of every new guitarist and frequently the point where they give up. Apologies for the wall of text but these are things I do on a daily basis, hope it helps. All this stuff should already give you a bunch of things to try and keep you busy. Think of melodies in your head and bring them to life as the song plays or you can try to play the melody of the song itself (might be better to find the instrumental version of that song). If you end up learning a song and it starts in F, try playing the song on some speakers and try soloing using the F minor pentatonic scale or major scale. Since F is your demon, learn it for that note. Learn the minor pentatonic scale and major scale of whatever. Find the root note first, then all you need to find out is how to play that chord which you can just google search. Also try listening to songs you like and figure out what the chords are. When you find a chord shape, keep your pointer or thumb on the root note but move your other fingers around and experiment with making the chord sound a certain way or in a way that sounds cool to you. Try to find as many ways as possible to do it. ![]() Next thing I recommend as someone else kind of mentioned here is finding where else on the fretboard can you play an F chord. If you can hold the barre and every note sounds clean consistently, you're golden. Hold the barre F and pick every note, if a certain note doesn't sound good (buzzing, dead note) then fix that finger or fingers accordingly. If a G barre chord is easier for you to hold and you can play it pretty decent (no buzzing notes and sounds clean) hold that same position and move it down two frets for the barre F. ![]()
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