Bar chords

Thanks for the advice...I'll get on to practicing.

Yeah...that's the hardest part...the pressure. And the fingers well, I'm not too old but my fingers are little so is still hard to hit the barre chords (sorry I wrote it wrong...my bad).

Zurf is all over this one, practice, practice, practice.
Very important to keep your thumb on back of the neck, so you're not just pressing with your index finger, you're pinching the neck between your thumb and finger.
On the lower frets, I tend to "roll" my index finger a bit and it makes a bit of a "C" shape"...I just seem to get a more complete barre.  When I get north of the fifth fret, it seems to straighten out.  Don't know if this is text book proper, but it works for me.
Did I mention you should practice?  Try making an E with your middle, ring, and pinky fingers.  Then just slide it down a fret, and throw your index finger across the first fret for an F.  Then move the whole thing up so the barre is across the third fret (that's a G), and then move it up to the fifth fret for an A.  If you want to go really crazy, move it up to the 7th position for a B!
Oh, I almost forgot....practice.
Good Luck!
Frank

I agree with Frank...Make an "E" chord using just your middle, ring and pinky and just slide down to whatever chord you want next..This is exactly the way I learned years ago and still play this way...However, there are going to be times when a "regular" chord sounds much better in a song than, lets say a two finger "D" chord. A great exercise to make a chord change from a regular chord, for me anyway, was from the regular "D" to a barre "A". I use to just finger the chord and change to the A without strumming over and over until I felt it was smooth...Like everyone else has said..practice, practice and practice. When you think you got...practice somemore..

Goof Luck!

Echoing all above...practice, practice, practice

Regarding barre chords:  I copied all the charts  (and what do those little numbers on the side of the grid mean, anyway?  is that a fret?)listed on Chordie's resource page but where can I get something like for barre chords . . . online . . .free. . . printable?  (Don't tell me to hunt them out of the chart  I'm too lazy for  that!)  I can practice but I'd like to see and hear as well as hear V. A. T or K if you wish.

Hi IamSunny,

You are right in thinking that the number shown on the left hand side of the chord is the fret that it is played on. If you look you will see that they are generally the barre chords.

Roger