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I hate bar chords. My dumb fingers never hold the strings in just the right way to not cause buzzing. Been trying to get them right for 20 years on/off. Fuck 'em. Power chords it is.
I'm terrible at the but I've found that not avoiding them has helped me improve. I see it as a percentage game, each time we might hit it right 10% of the time, the maybe 15% a few months later perhaps 35% etc. If I can nail a Bm or even that nasty bastard F 60% of the time I'm going to count that as a win. Main thing is if I can get a Bm down I can play almost every Cure song because for some reason Robert Smith can't write a song without one in it!
I've found it's all about the pressure and maximising it, so using your arm strength to pull back against the fret board instead of finger strength. The "AHA" moment was seeing a YouTube guitarist playing a Minor chord and using their middle AND index finger to barre it, reinforcing the index with the middle.
It's less finger strength and more my fingers are weird. I got meat paws and it still doesn't work trying multiple techniques.
Think it comes down to my knuckle on my pointer finger being a good bit larger than the rest of my finger so there's gaps when I attempt to lay it flat across the fretboard.
At this point though I just kind of play what feels good and don't really worry about learning songs anymore. So I typically don't use them in the style I've been playing. Like a weird mix of numetal/progmetal.
Am I good? Not really, but it's still fun to find a nice groovy riff and jam to it.