Lauren Bateman shows three ways to avoid barre chords. Play F major 7 with four or three fingers instead of F, use a 1-2-3 finger voicing for B minor, or slide an A-shape down for F# minor on the bottom three strings.
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Hate bar chords. But that F chord in B minor chord in F sharp minor, they're showing up all the time in these songs. Well, try these easy fixes. Instead of an F bar chord, you can try the F major seven chord. There's a four fingered version and a three fingered version. For the B minor chord, instead of playing the full bar, you can play first finger on the first string, second fret, second finger on the third fret of the second string, and third finger on the fourth fret of the third string. And then for F sharp minor, instead of playing the big bar, you can take an A chord. You can move it down one finger each so you're on the bott three strings. And you can play the easy F sharp minor.