[andyp18]

Ive been playing a month now using tabs. My old guitar teacher said if I do anything don't use tabs. I only went to him once because I moved.

I try and try but I just can't get a single good sound out. Please help me !

[guttertrashsingalong]

im sure there is,just not sure where at in the forum but ill be happy to look around for you

[Sano]

Andy,

I guess you've looked here, http://www.guitarforbeginners.com/barre.html.

If so and you're still having problems it could be that you just need to strengthen your barre-ing hand.

Alternatively, you don't need to play the whole thing. eg, when playing F in the first position I invariably just hold 1st and 2nd string down with my index finger whilst the others form the E shape. It doesn't matter much to me in a 6 barre chord regarding the root note 'cos as we all know 6th and 1st string are same note but 2 octaves apart.

Hope this helps a little bit.

Iain

[USGold]

I have never heard of a guitar that would not "allow" for chording?. Chords like any thing else in music take practice, you need to develop "finger memory" , myself I began on learning chords, chords are the easy part for me--trying to learn to improvise and solo over are the hard bit as I see it. Begin with the "open chord" shapes, learn the easy ones like A and E and D and C and G, then begin expanding your chord library.

[si16]

Andy, try here and here