Chord Hammer On substitution ideas

I have been trying to learn a rendition of “You Should Probably Leave” by Chris Stapleton. I have most of it under my fingers except for the short hammer on shown below that starts with a first finger bar on the 9th fret and then hammers on the next 3 fingers simultaneously on frets 10/11/11.
Im not sure if there is a trick to make this easier.
If not, I am looking for possible workarounds that would sound good in these 2 bars.

Any ideas?
Thank you

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Hi Brian,
I would solve it as simply as possible for now and only do the hammer-on with the middle finger … and continue to practice for later …It sound pretty nice too
So I assume that a hammer-on with a finger will work for you now :crossed_fingers:

Greetings,Rogier

Edit:I just played the song a few times (quite a beautiful song) and I also thought it was quite okay to leave out the hammer and just add a small extra pluck… yes, the hammer is part of it in the end you need to learn that :blush:, but it also sounds quite nice if you replace it for now for that extra pluck or just don’t replace it at all and just play the chord (hopefully this doesn’t sound like blasphemy) … in any case, thanks for this song :grinning_face_with_big_eyes:

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If you can play A-shape minor barre chords then this is easy.

Form the barre.
Simultaneously land fingers 2, 3 & 4 as a group to complete the barre chord.

This is a totally different song, and Justin only does a hammer-on with two fingers to make an A-shape minor 7 barre, but the movements of this famous intro are similar. https://www.justinguitar.com/songs/doobie-brothers-long-train-running-chords-tabs-guitar-lesson-st-368

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The A shape minor bar chord isn’t the problem, it is the hammer on with 3 fingers. Thanks for the Justin lesson with something similar. I tried it with 2 fingers like Justin did and it was much easier to accomplish. The sound is also very close to the original sound. Thanks!

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Thank you. That is an easy workaround while I work on the harder fingering

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