Are you having a hard time with A shape barre chords? In this guitar lesson, you will learn solutions as well as options that perhaps you didn’t know were available.

There are two main approaches to doing this. The first one employs a 2-finger bar which is also known as a double bar. The other one is the four finger approach, and uses the index bar and three other fingers.

Both are good, and ideally a player should be able to use either of them depending on the situation. However, that is not always how it is when you’re learning. Over my years of teaching I’ve learned that it is better to be competent in one thing than to be struggling with several. Let’s see the pros and cons of each approach.