re: On the subject of barre chords

Practice is def need to master barre chords. Like was said before you can always turn a barre chord into an open chord and just play 4 strings.

It helped me alot to start playing E, Em, A, & Am without using my pointer finger (rest it on the nut)It gets your other 3 fingers used to those positions, then you just have to build strength in your pointer to actually "barre" the other strings and you can move those 4 chords wherever.