When you only have a four-chord progression to remember, it's easier to remember many, many songs, which in turn allows one to summon up from memory a tune or two appropriate for how one is currently feeling, or how one wants to be feeling.
Because music makes for feels, man.
Lately I have been picking up my guitar much more frequently and trying, once again, to learn how to play more than just the few simple tunes that I have been playing over and over and over again for the past, oh, I don't know, three or four decades.
However, I have encountered once again the same small problem I always have. Big clumsy fingers.
See, guitar strings are close together, and placing fingers on specific strings while avoiding contact with the other strings that are on either side of the particular string you are trying to hold down is essential to making a clean chord ring out.
Which is hard to do with big clumsy fingers.
I have tried various exercises to develop finger dexterity - there are some great videos on YouTube that have helped, and I've even purchased a portable fingerboard, but I still
seem to be unable to get my fingers to do what I want them to do.
I've been told by multiple sources that learning barre chords are the answer to my problem, but I've also been told that the only way I'm ever going to be able to successfully play a barre chord is by learning how to move my fingers around a guitar neck with a nimble strength.
Which means a very large boatload of practice, which requires a very large boatload of time.
Maybe I should just learn to play the drums
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