I haven't updated this blog in a long time, the last post was six months ago, I said then that I'd devote 15 mins a day to mastering F. That didn't really work out as planned. I just found it too boring and felt I was getting nowhere so I pretty much gave up learning it, more out of procrastination than any sense of giving up though.
I kept playing what I know and learned a few new tunes but I was getting sick of avoiding songs that contained a barre, all too often I'd look up a tune on UltimateGuitar and be pissed off when I spotted the inevitable F or Bm.
So I decided the best way to learn a barre chord was to learn it in a tune rather than simply banging away at one chord over and over.
It worked. I'm so delighted with myself right now, I learned Hotel California (Am, Em, G, D, F, C, and D7), for a while it was torture trying to change between D and F, F and C but now I can do it effortlessly and perfectly fluid.
I've also learned my first finger picking song, Ryan Bingham's 'The Weary Kind' from Crazy Heart, it's a beautiful song and I've almost mastered it. It has a Bm barre in there too which coupled with the finger picking is great practise.
